cigarettes – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

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Celebrity Smokes: A Gallery of Star-Powered Cigarette Ads

Chris Holmes
posted on August 20, 2013February 23, 2018
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A gallery of vintage cigarette ads featuring celebrities (such as Frank Sinatra and Hank Aaron) pitching tobacco products to

Fred Flintstone smokes a Winston cigarette in a 1960s ad

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Let’s See Fred Flintstone Smoke Winston Cigarettes in Color

Behold this production color animation cel featuring Fred Flintstone smoking a Winston cigarette from an early 1960s TV

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Ads from the Open Road, Volume 1

Chris Holmes
posted on January 8, 2013February 5, 2013
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A photo gallery of some vintage Billboard advertisements from the 1950s, '60s, '70s, and

Vintage Thanksgiving ad - Lucky Strike cigarettes (1950)

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Retrotisements — Thanksgiving Dinner Edition

Chris Holmes
posted on November 20, 2012February 5, 2013
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A gallery of vintage Thanksgiving-themed advertisements covering all courses of Turkey Day

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Smoke your way to luxury with Raleigh and BelAir cigarettes!

Chris Holmes
posted on November 14, 2011November 13, 2011
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What’s this, another post with cigarette ads? Why yes it is, thanks for asking! Actually there is a bigger reason why I’m posting this — the latest addition to my Ephemera project

Lucky Strike - L.S./M.F.T. square dancing cigarettes ad

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Retrotisement: Lucky Strike’s square dancing cigarettes

Chris Holmes
posted on October 31, 2011October 31, 2011
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Yeah yeah, smoking’s bad for you. But this stop-motion, square dancing classic from 1948 is very, very good for you. Seriously, what’s not to love about this commercial? Well, other than