Cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco
Ambassador
The luxury length cigarette!
Anchor cigarettes (1)
A man at sea will often hanker
For the flavour of an Anchor!
(Tune: What shall we do with the drunken sailor?]
Anchor cigarettes (2)
So much satisfaction!
Belair Menthol Kings
Fresher Tasting!
Benson & Hedges
Pure Gold, from Benson & Hedges.
The length you go to for pleasure.
Benson and Hedges 100s
Oh the disadvantages of the new Benson and Hedges 100s!
They’re a lot longer than King-size — and that takes some getting used to!
(Clips of people getting these long cigarettes trapped in lift doors and setting light to beards etc.)
Benson and Hedges 100s are the new, longer filter cigarettes.
Three puffs longer, four puffs longer — maybe five puffs longer than King-size —
Once you get the hang of them!
Bic lighters
Flick your Bic
Bristol Cigarettes
Take a tip, take a Bristol,
Today’s cigarette is a Bristol,
A real cool flavour you’ll never forget,
Bristol is today’s cigarette
Brymay Matches
3d. well spent
Cadet’s
Cadets bring quality to smaller cigarettes!
Cambridge
Rothmans Cambridge — we’ve got the taste!
Camel cigarettes
I’d walk a mile for a Camel!
Capstan cigarettes (1)
Never go without a Capstan,
Wherever you go,
Never go without a Capstan.
Capstan cigarettes (2)
When the kids are getting out of hand and driving you insane —
Relax! Relax! Relax! Relax!
Let Capstan take the strain!
Capstan Full Strength cigarettes
For men who feel strongly about cigarette taste.
Ask for Capstan Full Strength in the brown packet.
Castella cigars (1)
The big cigar for the price of a pint
Castella cigars (2): 1970s
You know, you can come across some funny old partnerships!
There’s the George and Dragon, the Dog and Duck … and even the Punch and Judy!
But there’s one double act that gets on famously everywhere …
A Pint and Castella … a Castella cigar … long, smooth, and mellow.
Wherever there’s a friendly pub, have a Pint and Castella.
Get them together!
Condor pipe tobacco (1)
Aaah — Condor!
Condor pipe tobacco (2)
It’s that Condor moment
Consulate cigarettes
Cool as a mountain stream
The finest taste in smoking!
Craven A cigarettes
For your throat’s sake, smoke Craven A —
They never vary
Dunhill International cigarettes
Internationally acknowledged to be the finest cigarette in the world.
Gallaher’s Condor Tobacco: 1965
A man is sitting in a small sailing dinghy moored to a riverbank (“GALLAHER’s CONDOR”; is superimposed). He picks up a packet of Gallaher’s Condor Sliced tobacco, fills his pipe, sits back, lights up, and reclines.
Voiceover: Rich, slow-burning Condor — a man’s taste. Taste! That’s what a pipe-smoker wants from his tobacco, and Condor gives it richly! Condor! Real value at 5s. 11d. an ounce!
Guards
They’ve got to be great to be Guards!
Hamlet cigars: 1964
Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet,
The mild cigar from Benson & Hedges
[Background music: Bach’s “Air on a G-string”]
Harlequin Cigars: 1965
Michael Medwin: These Harlequin cigars are super, and they're not just made for actors on the telly. Harlequin are superb cigars, but they cost no more than twenty cigarettes!
[A tin of of the cigars and "HARLEQUIN FROM J.R.FREEMAN 5/- FOR 10" is superimposed]
Michael Medwin: You try Harlequin!
Imperial Panatellas
Everything a really good cigar should be!
Kensitas cigarettes; 1960s
No thank you, I’d rather have a Kensitas!
Kim
Long and slender, light and mellow.
Lambert & Butler cigarettes (1)
Lambert: They’ve gone down!
Butler: But not in my estimation, Sir!
Lambert & Butler cigarettes (2)
Lambert: The price is frozen!
Butler: Looks pretty hot to me, Sir!
Manikin Cigars (1): mid-1960s
The mild Havana flavour
Manikin Cigars (2): 1970s
Sheer enjoyment from Manikin-Britain’s favourite cigar.
Marlboro cigarettes
Settle Back. You get a lot to like here in Marlboro Country.
Come to where the flavour is. Come to Marlboro Country.
Come to where the flavour is.
Come to Marlboro Country.
Marlboro.
Pall Mall cigarettes
Wherever particular people congregate.
Piccadilly No. 7
A smooth smoking cigarette of the finest Piccadilly quality tobacco .
Players cigarettes
Players please!
And afterwards, a Players:
It’s the tobacco that counts.
Player’s Anchor Cigarettes
In a world of men
It’s Player’s Anchor,
Fuller flavoured, smooth and satisfying,
So much satisfaction.
Red and White cigarettes: 1955
Time to light a Red and White.
Just the job for the man who inhales!
Rizla cigarette papers
It’s what you make of it:
Quality rolling paper.
St Bruno pipe tobacco: 1964
I like a man who smokes St Bruno.
Satin cigarettes
Go on, spoil yourself with Satin.
Senior Service cigarettes
Senior Service satisfy!
Slim Kings
King-size length with elegance!
Strand cigarettes: 1959
You’re never alone with a Strand,
The cigarette of the moment.
Swan Vesta matches (1)
The smoker’s match.
Swan Vesta matches (2): 1970s
(Shown during a Miss World contest)
Whatever the judges say, we know gentlemen prefer redheads!
Tom Thumb cigars
Tom Thumb cigars for Christmas,
Tom Thumb in tins of ten,
There are ten tin tops,
They’re in all good shops,
The Christmas gift for men.
Britain’s most popular cigarette-size cigar.
Woodbine cigarettes
Ah Woodbine — A great little cigarette!
Note
Cigarette and tobacco advertising was banned from UK television in 1965, while cigar advertising was banned in 1991.
Donatello cigars
Erinmore tobacco
Four Square tobacco
Golden Virginia tobacco
Guards cigarettes
Manikin cigars
Old Holborn tobacco
Panatella cigars
Park Drive
Schimmelpennick Panatella
Silk Cut
Will’s Gold Flake tobacco
Wills Whiffs
Baby’s Bottom pipe tobacco
“Smooth as a baby’s bottom “: was this only a printed advert?
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