Celebrity Smokes: A Gallery of Star-Powered Cigarette Ads
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It seems inconceivable now, but until about the mid-1960s it was quite common to see celebrities hawking cigarettes like it was no big deal. In fact, many radio, TV, and movie stars literally owed their livelihood to sponsorship from tobacco companies. Imagine seeing someone like George Clooney or Angelina Jolie smiling widely in cigarette ads exhorting you to pick up a carton of Marlboro. Weird, isn’t it?
Anyway, here’s a gallery of 20 such ads from the 1930s through the early 1960s featuring movie and TV stars, as well as famous athletes, using their star power to get you to buy cigarettes and cigars. Most of these ads are courtesy the Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising site.
Bing Crosby for Chesterfield, 1944
Anne Sheridan for Chesterfield, 1947
Ronald Reagan for Chesterfield, 1948
Barbara Stanwyck for L&M, undated
Basil Rathbone for Fatima, 1949
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for Philip Morris, 1951
Ed Sullivan for Chesterfield, 1953
Frank Gifford for Lucky Strike, 1962
Frank Sinatra for Chesterfield, 1957
Hank Aaron for Camel, 1962
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart for Robert Burns, 1948
Jack Webb for Chesterfield, 1953
Jesse Owens for White Owl, 1960
Joan Crawford for Chesterfield, 1950
Joe DiMaggio for Camel, 1941
Joe Louis for Chesterfield, 1944
Laurel and Hardy for Old Gold, 1937
Paul Hornung for Marlboro, 1962
Sam Snead for Lucky Strike, 1954
Spencer Tracy for Lucky Strike, 1938
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