newport cigarette ads 1970s Cigarette ads

Currently, 11% of U.S

Newport Owner: RJ Reynolds Country of origin: United States of America Established: 1957 Brand Value: $5.5 billion Lorillard Tobacco Company launched Newport in 1957

1 Today, dispensaries sell blunt wraps made from hemp, a tobacco-free, non-nicotine alternative that retains the signature slow burn

In fact, in the case of Silk Cut, there was nothing to tell you these were cigarette ads apart from the obligatory Government Health Warning, and, of course, the luxurious purple silk being cut in various surreal (and often threatening, occasionally possibly misogynistic) ways.* (Its interesting to compare American cigarette ads of the same period which didnt have the same restrictions and were extremely dull and unimaginative, consisting mainly of smiling moronic Americans with a cigarette in their mouths.) Cigarette ads were the main inspiration behind me wanting to work in advertising in the late 1980s (which I eventually did, briefly)