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I checked in the search for any info on this, and found nothing. I wasn't sure if it was "Food" section-appropriate, but I could not find another section to post it in. I also searched on the Snopes homepage, and found nothing. So, I was hoping someone here might be able to help. Back in the mid- to late 70's, and possibly into the 80's, there were magazine ads and billboards for a certain brand of cigarettes, and I do not remember the name of the brand or anything. Only that the ads had people smoking in them, and they all had white lines beneath their eyes. Does anyone remember the brand of cigarette and why they had white lines below their eyes? Any info would be greatly appreciated. This has always bugged me, for some reason.
I don't know why I think that, or why Newports would have white lines under people's eyes, but, there ya go.
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Okay, thank you. the "light" ad was what I was referring to, but the white line still really made no sense.
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Bonnie's very good! I barely remember Tareytons...
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Er, total familiarity with cigarette advertising campaigns was part of the core curriculum for every North Carolina school kid growing up in the '60s and '70s.
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Bonnie, you are someone I would love to play Trivial Pursuit with.
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That Newport ad is way before my time, but I think I may have just confused it with the Tareyton ads.
Though, I am fairly sure there were Newport ads in which white was a prominent color (it would be in the newer packaging, with the darker green color, since "green" equals "menthol")....I dunno...I'm tired....must sleep...
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Thete was one where the people had a black eye and proclaimed, "I'd rather fight than switch".
And LSMFT? Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
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I don't listen to MP3s at work, but I'll hazard a guess that the brand is Marlboro.
Seaboe
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Ohhhkay, as long as we're going back in time, fill in the blanks:
___ ____ green goes to war.
I'd walk a mile for a _____.
Reach for a ___ instead of a sweet.
And one that is obscure, but placeable: Remember when you could insult some louge lizard by telling he looked like Lance _____ _____?
And let's not forget: The name of the flower-patterned cigarettes marketed for women is _____.
Must stop before I betray my secret talent for remembering radio and TV commercials and hear somebody tell me I should get a life.
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Mournful Eve and Virginia Slims how I hate you. How much money and health have I lost because of those ads in the 1970s??
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I could swear on my life that Newports had an ad maybe in the early to mid 80's with a couple that had the white newport logo under their eye. It is weird how certain things stick with you. I used to smoke eihter Chelsea or Misty cigarettes. Chelsea cigarettes were supposed to smell like vanilla and Misty cigarettes were pink. Ahhhh the 80's no regard for those young Jr. High lungs.
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Er, total familiarity with cigarette advertising campaigns was part of the core curriculum for every North Carolina school kid growing up in the '60s and '70s.
Bonnie "I've come a long way, baby" Taylor
I'll second that. Heck, in NC tobacco is a vegetable!
I remember those cig ads. I remember ones too with a rather 'light in the loafers' looking guy in a Skipper outfit on a yatch with a cigarette, and if I remember correctly he may have even been wearing an ascot! - I definitely remember how er... 'jolly' the guy looked. Which cigarettes was that advertising? I can't remember the brand, really.
I remember another one too, that had 'bent tip' cigarettes in them - but remember it only just barely. Can't remember much else except that the end of the cig was bent up.
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quote:Originally posted by SiriusSnape: I remember another one too, that had 'bent tip' cigarettes in them - but remember it only just barely. Can't remember much else except that the end of the cig was bent up.
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Oopsie: I had to go google this one up because I had the wroooooong brand in mind: "Reach for a Camel instead of a sweet."
The cheesball insult I was remembering was from Silva Thins. They had a thin, artsy, international spy type wearing wraparound sunglasses in all their ads. He was referred to as Lance Silva Thin by the disrespectful.
Anybody remember Lemon Twist cigarettes? How about Vogue (brown papers, neon colored filters)?
Oh, and the skipper guy was from the Salem ads. Mad Magazine lampooned their advertisements by showing little boys floating them downstream with the caption, "Winston-Sail 'Em, Don't Inhale 'Em."
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quote:Originally posted by Miss Rosa: Anybody remember Lemon Twist cigarettes?
I do! I do! I even smoked them, back in 1973. They didn't taste like lemon to me, just very light menthol.
-- Mama "smoked 'em when she'd got 'em" Boid
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That's them! Wow, that ad really brings back memories.
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