Damn--totally different era so it's really not fair of me to judge, but I was cringing watching Bob play corporate whore in so obvious a fashion. Especially when he slipped the coupon in his pocket. Almost makes me glad audiences these days are at least a little more cynical, as something like this would come off as satire now. Gimme the reminders to have pets spayed or neutered any day!
Bob Barker, believe it or not, isn't a smoker. I read a Larry King Live transcript that Mr. Barker felt sick after smoking a cigarette and thus never attempted smoked afterwards.
@BrownBrother27 Selling cigarettes was the same thing as selling shaving cream back then: Just another job. It's been so demonized now that people don't understand that smoking wasn't considered so evil a thing at that time. Even after the 1964 Surgeon General's report it took a few years and additional medical reports to really hit home on how bad they are for you.
Years ago they had 1- 800 numbers on cigarette packs..I had a friend who worked at MacDonald tobacco and he was showing me all these cool little gifts he had that anyone could get if they called the number.
Now the tobacco companies can't afford to even send you a pack of matches and draconian anti-tobacco laws make it impossible for them to give away anything.
People enjoy unhealthy things..Pple should be absolutely free to consume ANYTHING their hearts desire..that's freedom & democracy.
@pinkdarkechoes I absolutely agree with you. Sure, smoking is bad for you but so is everything else....riding a motorcycle, joining the military, living in the inner city, working construction. People act like that if you smoke it precludes you from dieing any other way just because you smoke.....like, I can never die of food poisioning because I am scheduled to die from cigarettes
This is the same guy who wont allow showing a 40 year old episode of TPIR where some piddly mink coat was given away, and the anmial and the coat itself are both dead and gone, yet here he is hawking a product that kills PEOPLE?
bucks on things we would have bought at Best Buy, but now we are loyal Tiger Direct customers ( who prices are about as good anywyas). And time, who did the right thing, well, I STILL have a subscription from them to this day. But there is the American Corp. culture for you. NEVER GIVE ANY money back , even if we are wrong ( those executives have boat payments and coke to buy) and blame the customer. Nice guys, over twenty bucks youv've los 14,980 bucks, to this point. I'm still only 32 so
@JunFan777 what does any of this have to do with the bob barker cigarette commercial? and why did i just waste my time reading about your best buy experience? LOL
When we protested that we did and where in fact lied to he said none of his employees would do that and he didn't appreciate us insinuating that!!! He once again (unsolicited) basically called us poor and it's not his fault we couldn't afford a simple magazine subscription!!! Once again that was NEVER an issue we brought up. So got nasty with him at that point and left. So, over twenty bucks, Best Buy lost our business forever, we added it up and realized we have spent about 15,000
One, we never mentioned how much money we had or that this caused an overdraft or ANYTHING ( in fact we had done quite well with investments and with no children are quite well offf, we are just younger , mid twenties then, so we got no respect) Well, we drive there and ask for the manager, when we told the lady what for SHE EVEN SAID, "This promotion has been a nightmare"> Well, the manager was NOTHING BUT ATTITUDE, it was our fault for not asking more questions of the cashier, so on, so forth
So we call Time who apologizes, even said they have had a LOT of complaints about this promotion with "Best Buy' and promptly refunded our money. I was so impressed, ( and I like Time) that I ordered a subscription on the spot. We called Best Buy, after the manager made a comment to the order of "we can't be held responsible if you don't have enough money in your account to cove things YOU chose to purchase", then the bastard HUNG UP on my wife, I assure you she was NEVER out of line.
I look at it as you have "won", I'm in your store to make my purchase, but thats not enough, you have to treat me like a "John" at a carnival and try to pressure, brow beat, annoy me, or flat out lie ( about things like "recurring" charges). Best buy sold my wife a magazine subscription, we asked specifically if we need to cancel this at some point and where told not, its just a free "trial" issue. Yeah, bullshit, two months later we where charged for TWO "time Magazine" subscriptions.
The biggest problem to me is that no one has a passion to simply make the "Best" product ( whatever it is) they possibly can and rely on just THAT to sell the product. And then stand behind it, not to try to find EVERY reason possible to not reimburse a customer for a defective product . Also I can't stand how almost EVERY store you go in now, they hound you at the door, they hound you in the aisles and they hound you at the register to buy some worthless add on or extended warrenty.....
I don't think Bob Barker was a smoker, at least not later in life. His beloved wife Dorothy Jo died of smoking related cancer. I'm pretty sure he has been an adamant non-smoker for many years now.
@sneezabonk he never did. in the 50's tv show hosts had to "plug" the sponsor's product... in the long run, it was cheaper than producing a television commercial and people looked differently when they see peopkle they are familiar with talking about a product
ill never understand why people hate on tobacco so much. its been smoked in america since native americans have been here. its as traditional as apple pie
Coupons on the back of cigarette packs so you could say "Hey, I may have emphysema, but look at this swell Coleman camping stove that I got by saving Raleigh coupons!" "Yes Jim, it sure makes having to spend my golden years breathing from my own personal oxygen tank seem worthwhile."
and whats your bid on the belair cigarettes 4.60 bob "ping" ok over to you laura 4.61 bob "ping" laura your a fucking bitch..... what?1!! you know what bidding 1 cent higher than me i ought to beat your bitch ass all over this stage... calm down calm down dont make me kick you off the show and laura that was pretty bitchy of you
those cigarettes (Bel-air) were terrible. Actually anything made by that company....i think it was "Brown And Williams tobacco co" was trash. The only big seller they had was Kools.
to tguitar200: you may be right....originally Lucky strike and pall mall were made by the old American Tobacco Company.....then something happened and they were bought out. The Pall Malls taste as good as they ever did but the luckies taste awfull now.
i've been smoking for 20 of my 29 years and i won't stop until hell freezes over, satan wears snowshoes and starts skiing, and pigs finally learn the bisics or aerodynamics.
29 - 20 = 9, so you've been smoking since you were NINE years old?! See zekeandjiji(dot)com sometime, that last thing you wrote might come true after all.
This is a rarity indeed; this is from NBC daytime's version of "T or C" and I'm old enough to remember when Barker's version aired every morning at 11:00 AM (on KRCA/KNBC in LA). You rarely if ever saw cigarette commercials on NBC daytime. In those years, "T or C" was sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, Miles Labs (now owned by Bayer), Lever Bros. and others. And nineteen99 is absolutely right...the Bel-Air package and logo still looks the same today.
@michaeledwardmorris--I'm surprised to find cigarette ads on any daytime program. I collect classic game shows, and I have a 1962 episode of the ABC show SEVEN KEYS, where there is a filmed spot for Spring cigarettes.
I like the way Bob rips the coupon off the pack and sticks it in his pocket........."I'll have one more for my collection and soon I will have that new tie clip"
Why would you say they are old, Belair's are still being made today and believe it or not the pack design hasn't changed at all from the one Bob Barker is advertising.
Barker's wife died of smoking related cancer. He is an adamant non-smoker.
expoboy52 3 weeks ago
Did you see that slight of hand. Bob took the Raleigh coupon off at :52 seconds and slipped the coupon in his pocket.
What a sneak!!
texasghost 1 month ago
"...And don't forget to spay or neuter your pet."
LegionnaireEtrangere 1 month ago
Damn--totally different era so it's really not fair of me to judge, but I was cringing watching Bob play corporate whore in so obvious a fashion. Especially when he slipped the coupon in his pocket. Almost makes me glad audiences these days are at least a little more cynical, as something like this would come off as satire now. Gimme the reminders to have pets spayed or neutered any day!
Beorning1972 1 month ago
Finally a coupon! I'm sold
ELECTRICCLOCK 1 month ago
I smoked these in the 70s. I got a microwave cart with my coupons. I quit smoking 5 years ago. Yeah!
surlygirlie0321 1 month ago
@surlygirlie0321 if you saved enough coupons you could buy an Iron lung with it
inkey2 3 days ago
Ooohh so that's where the LA Dodgers got thier logo idea from!
supatoker420 2 months ago
shit, Bob! This makes me want to start smoking!
VastatorOfBorg 2 months ago
Pure white filter...because you wouldn't want a black one.
mstcrow5429 2 months ago
..and the Price was Right also...about .35 cents a pack. Perfect salesman.
cinerama62 2 months ago
Bob Barker, believe it or not, isn't a smoker. I read a Larry King Live transcript that Mr. Barker felt sick after smoking a cigarette and thus never attempted smoked afterwards.
BrownBrother27 2 months ago
@BrownBrother27 Selling cigarettes was the same thing as selling shaving cream back then: Just another job. It's been so demonized now that people don't understand that smoking wasn't considered so evil a thing at that time. Even after the 1964 Surgeon General's report it took a few years and additional medical reports to really hit home on how bad they are for you.
ericinwisconsin 2 months ago
those cigarettes absolutely suck
inkey2 3 months ago
Remember to spay and neuter your cigarettes!
ericinwisconsin 3 months ago
@ericinwisconsin LMAO
snootzie78 2 months ago
yeah if you listen carefuly you here someone coughing
PKeffer1 4 months ago 3
Years ago they had 1- 800 numbers on cigarette packs..I had a friend who worked at MacDonald tobacco and he was showing me all these cool little gifts he had that anyone could get if they called the number.
Now the tobacco companies can't afford to even send you a pack of matches and draconian anti-tobacco laws make it impossible for them to give away anything.
People enjoy unhealthy things..Pple should be absolutely free to consume ANYTHING their hearts desire..that's freedom & democracy.
pinkdarkechoes 4 months ago
@pinkdarkechoes I absolutely agree with you. Sure, smoking is bad for you but so is everything else....riding a motorcycle, joining the military, living in the inner city, working construction. People act like that if you smoke it precludes you from dieing any other way just because you smoke.....like, I can never die of food poisioning because I am scheduled to die from cigarettes
inkey2 3 days ago
save the wrappers, there's a kid that is in linefor an iron lung!
Wa3ypx 4 months ago
This is the same guy who wont allow showing a 40 year old episode of TPIR where some piddly mink coat was given away, and the anmial and the coat itself are both dead and gone, yet here he is hawking a product that kills PEOPLE?
oldertvshowswerebetr 5 months ago
crazy he's doing a commercial for this but didn't his wife die from smoking
retroguy1976 6 months ago
Get enough coupons and you can receive your very own iron lung.
Won't that look nice next to the credenza.
damselnlace44 6 months ago
'Pure White Modern Filter'
MrCorporalTunnel 6 months ago
Thank you, itsmejunky for telling off JunFan777...how much more of a tangent can someone get?
tomservo56954 6 months ago
I wish I had a big fat Bel Air right now.
ReDact45 6 months ago
When I did smoke in the 70's I would smoke Belair's when I ran out of Marlboro's. Thanks Grandma!
sevenlemon 7 months ago
How Long has that guy been on the air???
Nascarking24 8 months ago
@Nascarking24 I didn't know when he started but retired in 2007
sneezabonk 6 months ago
bucks on things we would have bought at Best Buy, but now we are loyal Tiger Direct customers ( who prices are about as good anywyas). And time, who did the right thing, well, I STILL have a subscription from them to this day. But there is the American Corp. culture for you. NEVER GIVE ANY money back , even if we are wrong ( those executives have boat payments and coke to buy) and blame the customer. Nice guys, over twenty bucks youv've los 14,980 bucks, to this point. I'm still only 32 so
JunFan777 11 months ago
@JunFan777 what does any of this have to do with the bob barker cigarette commercial? and why did i just waste my time reading about your best buy experience? LOL
itsmejunky 9 months ago
When we protested that we did and where in fact lied to he said none of his employees would do that and he didn't appreciate us insinuating that!!! He once again (unsolicited) basically called us poor and it's not his fault we couldn't afford a simple magazine subscription!!! Once again that was NEVER an issue we brought up. So got nasty with him at that point and left. So, over twenty bucks, Best Buy lost our business forever, we added it up and realized we have spent about 15,000
JunFan777 11 months ago
One, we never mentioned how much money we had or that this caused an overdraft or ANYTHING ( in fact we had done quite well with investments and with no children are quite well offf, we are just younger , mid twenties then, so we got no respect) Well, we drive there and ask for the manager, when we told the lady what for SHE EVEN SAID, "This promotion has been a nightmare"> Well, the manager was NOTHING BUT ATTITUDE, it was our fault for not asking more questions of the cashier, so on, so forth
JunFan777 11 months ago
So we call Time who apologizes, even said they have had a LOT of complaints about this promotion with "Best Buy' and promptly refunded our money. I was so impressed, ( and I like Time) that I ordered a subscription on the spot. We called Best Buy, after the manager made a comment to the order of "we can't be held responsible if you don't have enough money in your account to cove things YOU chose to purchase", then the bastard HUNG UP on my wife, I assure you she was NEVER out of line.
JunFan777 11 months ago
I look at it as you have "won", I'm in your store to make my purchase, but thats not enough, you have to treat me like a "John" at a carnival and try to pressure, brow beat, annoy me, or flat out lie ( about things like "recurring" charges). Best buy sold my wife a magazine subscription, we asked specifically if we need to cancel this at some point and where told not, its just a free "trial" issue. Yeah, bullshit, two months later we where charged for TWO "time Magazine" subscriptions.
JunFan777 11 months ago
The biggest problem to me is that no one has a passion to simply make the "Best" product ( whatever it is) they possibly can and rely on just THAT to sell the product. And then stand behind it, not to try to find EVERY reason possible to not reimburse a customer for a defective product . Also I can't stand how almost EVERY store you go in now, they hound you at the door, they hound you in the aisles and they hound you at the register to buy some worthless add on or extended warrenty.....
JunFan777 11 months ago
now usa is full of fat obese people thanks lawyers we went from smokers to fat asses
tomanyasses 11 months ago
The country was a better place back then then..........
JunFan777 1 year ago
@JunFan777 alot better
tomanyasses 11 months ago
@bigbuck20 haha good one portable oxigen
luis3826 1 year ago
Coupons to help purchase you portable oxygen tank!!!
BIGBUCK20 1 year ago
I don't think Bob Barker was a smoker, at least not later in life. His beloved wife Dorothy Jo died of smoking related cancer. I'm pretty sure he has been an adamant non-smoker for many years now.
expoboy52 1 year ago
What the hell is the big deal about a "pure white filter?". It will yellow like the smoker's teeth
stefonamus 1 year ago
Well come on down! lol I bet none of his Barkers Beauties were even born when this first aired lol
curt349 1 year ago
The last cigarette commercial was aired on the Tonight Show just before the law banning cigarette commercials went into effect.
Spindriftful 1 year ago
wow ...free gifts?
...as opposed to gifts ya have to pay for, eh?
MESAVELLA 1 year ago
must smoke
WockesZero 1 year ago
That sounded like a natural thing to throw out there to the smokers in the audience. Not product placement at all.
MarkTheMagnificent 1 year ago
I never knew Bob Barker smoked
sneezabonk 1 year ago
@sneezabonk he never did. in the 50's tv show hosts had to "plug" the sponsor's product... in the long run, it was cheaper than producing a television commercial and people looked differently when they see peopkle they are familiar with talking about a product
drunkattheparty 1 year ago
14 Raleigh coupons! Maybe I can buy a leash . . . or a muzzle.
gmartinz01 1 year ago
ill never understand why people hate on tobacco so much. its been smoked in america since native americans have been here. its as traditional as apple pie
gsboss 1 year ago
@gsboss they hate on tobacco because they think its the tobacco thats bad and cant understand that whats bad is the chemicals they put into it
Zear0 1 year ago
The very first smoke that I had, My grandma used to smoke those.
sr71ablackbird 1 year ago
Coupons on the back of cigarette packs so you could say "Hey, I may have emphysema, but look at this swell Coleman camping stove that I got by saving Raleigh coupons!" "Yes Jim, it sure makes having to spend my golden years breathing from my own personal oxygen tank seem worthwhile."
elc1960 1 year ago
You save Raleigh coupons? How do you think I got this oxygen tank?
dandydonaldo 1 year ago
LOL. He was the original "Prince of Belair"! :)
michaelbme 1 year ago 5
I love how Barker pockets the coupon.
KyleCHaight 1 year ago
....*cough*
peppoj 2 years ago
Never had Bel Airs. Do they still sell them?
MasterAdam100 2 years ago
@MasterAdam100 unfortunatly
PlatniumProductions 2 years ago
"Pure white filter, too."
That pureness and whiteness will take away all the bad stuff in the tobacco smoke, sure enough.
hebneh 2 years ago
Bob lost his wife Dorothy Jo to lung cancer. Wonder if he regrets this commercial now?
yaggazoozy 2 years ago 2
cheap cigs mean leftover tobacoo that falls out of the machine then they sweep it up and stuff back in the machine to make weird off named smokes
djcountry1985 2 years ago
...and remember to spay and neuter your lungs to ensure they don't produce any unwanted carbon dioxide.
rodeovyn 2 years ago
This is like the Flintstones doing Winston.
Fartingbellybutton 2 years ago
Hey, Bob. Can you tell us the actual retail price of those cigarettes without going over?
Maniaxe613 2 years ago
Back then abou $.18 per pack.
MrTabby5000 2 years ago
Spay and neuter Bob Barker!
ZombiedustXXX 2 years ago
In the spirit of the commercial:
"Remember to spay and neuter your Camels and Marlboros."
Watcher3223 2 years ago
I might start smoking agian.. thanks bob. LOL
adam3176 2 years ago
Bel-Airs are really fresh... one could say they're good enough for a prince.
Just don't smoke them around your mom, or she'll get scared.
CrossEyed7 2 years ago
and whats your bid on the belair cigarettes 4.60 bob "ping" ok over to you laura 4.61 bob "ping" laura your a fucking bitch..... what?1!! you know what bidding 1 cent higher than me i ought to beat your bitch ass all over this stage... calm down calm down dont make me kick you off the show and laura that was pretty bitchy of you
Winstonbreak4u 2 years ago
Helping the tobacco drug pushers kill the addicts they create. How pathetic. Tobacco MUST be BANNED NOW!
tripjet999 2 years ago
those cigarettes (Bel-air) were terrible. Actually anything made by that company....i think it was "Brown And Williams tobacco co" was trash. The only big seller they had was Kools.
inkey2 2 years ago 3
I think brown and williams had pall mall too. I noticed just recently that kools and pall mall both are now rj reynolds.
tguitar200 2 years ago
to tguitar200: you may be right....originally Lucky strike and pall mall were made by the old American Tobacco Company.....then something happened and they were bought out. The Pall Malls taste as good as they ever did but the luckies taste awfull now.
inkey2 2 years ago
God, Bob was also a great TV pitchman... What cadence! "Just the right touch of menthol...."
musicom67 3 years ago 6
to musicom67: you "are" right...he was an awsome pitchman. He is so good, smooth & upbeat that I would smoke wall paper if "he" advertised it
inkey2 2 years ago 2
Pleae keep the game show host population under control - have them spayed or neutered
trh2130 3 years ago 2
the cough at 0:20 is perfect
AJBSONIC 3 years ago 3
Lol Love at :20 someone coughs =P
Airforce790 3 years ago 3
I'm sure Bob would really get mad if he watched this. His wife Dorothy Jo was a smoker which caused her lung cancer and her eventual death in 1981.
btn2271984 3 years ago 7
It was probably Belairs she smoked......I never thought I'd see the day, when Bob would be hawking cigarettes.
(This was indeed before my time!)
GandSAfan 3 years ago
Ironically, did you know that the first item up for bids on The Price Is Right when Bob Barker took over was....A FUR COAT?
frankp3 3 years ago 3
i've been smoking for 20 of my 29 years and i won't stop until hell freezes over, satan wears snowshoes and starts skiing, and pigs finally learn the bisics or aerodynamics.
Proud To Be A Menthol Smoker
buubaby26 3 years ago
29 - 20 = 9, so you've been smoking since you were NINE years old?! See zekeandjiji(dot)com sometime, that last thing you wrote might come true after all.
zekepig 3 years ago
No, you'll stop when they kill you!
burnabybrent 3 years ago 3
Love the audience member coughing during the cigarette commercial at :22. Think he smoked BelAir?
musicom67 3 years ago 20
Look how Bob could sell something that is obviously bad for you!
a1cjlock 3 years ago 2
*cough *cough
visaman 3 years ago
He put that coupon in his pocket LOL
jb40thpony 3 years ago 2
I also used to smoke those(I was16),when I didn't have Camels or Marlboros. Not my fav at the time.
sevenlemon 3 years ago
Thank God for once, Bob was wrong.....
redoctober90 3 years ago 2
Heavy smoking killed his beloved Dorothy Jo when she was about 58 years old.
catholicpriest1 3 years ago
This is a rarity indeed; this is from NBC daytime's version of "T or C" and I'm old enough to remember when Barker's version aired every morning at 11:00 AM (on KRCA/KNBC in LA). You rarely if ever saw cigarette commercials on NBC daytime. In those years, "T or C" was sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, Miles Labs (now owned by Bayer), Lever Bros. and others. And nineteen99 is absolutely right...the Bel-Air package and logo still looks the same today.
michaeledwardmorris 3 years ago
@michaeledwardmorris--I'm surprised to find cigarette ads on any daytime program. I collect classic game shows, and I have a 1962 episode of the ABC show SEVEN KEYS, where there is a filmed spot for Spring cigarettes.
tomservo56954 6 months ago
bob would never do this thing again
ipothereader 3 years ago 3
I like the way Bob rips the coupon off the pack and sticks it in his pocket........."I'll have one more for my collection and soon I will have that new tie clip"
Ulai777 3 years ago 2
I used to love BelAirs. They weren't as strong as Kools or Salems.
33Mark221 3 years ago 2
Wow you must be old!
foreskin44 3 years ago
Yep.
33Mark221 3 years ago
Why would you say they are old, Belair's are still being made today and believe it or not the pack design hasn't changed at all from the one Bob Barker is advertising.
nineteen99 3 years ago
And don't forget to have your pets spade and neutered.
nightfly776 3 years ago 20
I prefer something like: Don't wear fur, unless it grows on your own skin.
zekepig 3 years ago
Don't have them spayed--have them "clubbed". How's that for a change of suit?
handinside 3 years ago 2
@nightfly776 Spayed lol
bofts 1 year ago
@nightfly776 ... spayed.
Tre404 8 months ago