Dick Van Dyke Show cast for Kent Cigarettes (Cigarette Girl)

[Cml725]

What's interesting is they were more into Pall Malls, and Dick Van Dyke said they didn't like doing these commercials because it was like giving kids permission to smoke.

[cheeriosinabowl]

What a filthy habit ! It just stinks -- and the smell lingers.

Of course, cigarette commericals back in the 60's were no big deal, run of the mill, so to speak. Cigs were advertised everywhere. I am glad cig advertising has been banned, but people continue to puff away. Their choice, of course.

[QYB555]

Of course, that mighty micro-nite filter made it just fine-and-dandy!

[Drivermatic]

Back in the day most people knew cigarettes were bad for you. In WWII the G.I's referred to them as "Coffin Nails". I recently read a Illinois Supreme Court ruling from 1914 where the Judge wrote in the finding that "smoking was bad for one health".  That said I love a good smoke.......its my choice. You get cancer when you smoke too much, one cigarette does not give you cancer. So go ahead and enjoy a Kent.

[hebneh]

"THE cigarette that gives you filter, taste, and pleasure!"

And cancer.

[bjoh249]

Mary Tyler Moore smoked??

[PeterFirthFan]

Yes, 3 packs a day.

[givebeesachance]

DVD was a SMOKER?!?!? Wow, I had so much respect for the guy before seeing this. I guess he's just another hollywood phony.

[weenielongus]

Givebeesachance, this was a different era. Many people smoked back then, and this was before the surgeon general's warning was placed on cigarette packages. All the facts weren't out yet about the dangers of cigarette smoking, so if you had a hit TV show and your sponsor asked you to do a commercial showing you using their product, what could you do but help your sponsor?!? NOW that people know better, I'm sure it would be a lot different...

[3investigators]

@weenielongus All the dirty little facts about smoking were carefully hidden by the cig companies and only fully got out in the late 1980's - which is when very sick people started to sue. Doctors even used to prescribe cigarettes to pregnant women into the 1960's!

[Lamonjello]

It's a 40 year-old advertisement! Get off your high horse and cut the sanctimonious act.

Besides, you can tell by the way he blows the smoke that he's not a smoker. Relax.

[StripedRainDrops]

@Lamonjello Thank you! FInally someone with some sense!

[StripedRainDrops]

@givebeesachance Smoking was the vogue thing to do at the time, and no one had any clue it was harmful. I don't know if you've ever actually seen a Hollywood movie from that time, but in every single on they're smoking. Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jane Russel, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, because they didn't know it was bad for you. Why don't you research a bit before calling someone a phony just because they smoke? Even now people who smoke aren't all phony's, geez guy.

[bdf2718]

Ah, that wonderful "Micronite" filter. Later withdrawn because it was made from asbestos.

[marytylermoorerox]

i love mary tyler moore so i will watch anything with her in it lol :O

[dancortese2006]

I don't remember seeing this commercial on my DVD sets. Is it hidden somewhere?

[hoss1962]

Cheese, anyone?

[fromthesidelines]

She also mentioned that in her autobiography, "After All", 'defund'...

[ACuriousDanceretc]

She did...and I believe that she said all of the cast members exchanged them.

[defundthewar]

Mary Tyler Moore said much, much later that the sponsor gave the cast members cartons of Kent every week. Mary preferred another brand, and so exchanged her carton of Kent at the store. I think it was on Letterman when I saw her divulge this.

[fromthesidelines]

Dick -and some of the cast- usually plugged their sponsor's brand in "integrated commercials" at the end of the episodes sponsored by Lorillard Tobacco [Kent] between 1962 and '66 {Procter & Gamble was the show's primary sponsor, on alternate weeks}. This is a typical 1964 spot...