My pizza tastes like an ashtray (60's cigarette commercial)

[ensgavry]

if you clip-n saved enough coupons, you earned a luxurious casket as a 'free gift'

[drewt3]

I bet if Americans still smoked at the same percentage as we used to, everyone would be a lot nicer. Cancer-ridden, but nicer. Seems like we've just exchanged cigarettes for eating disorders and cell phones at awkward social moments . Welcome to the great American smoke-free future where we've all become incredibly nasty to each other, blame each other for our problems and now can barely afford a bad internet connection.King size or non-filter anyone?I've got the percolator started.

[acfinney1]

@drewt3 Hell yeah! Not Raliegh though. I smoked those as a teen. The old L and M's were really good. Your insight is out of the ball park. Just look what homos like tonymaximmuscles wrote. He probably puffs 20 peckers a day. Lol.

[MrCorporalTunnel]

I remember the Raleigh coupons. They still had them in the 70's. My parents smoked this brand. I used to steal their coupons and pretend they were play money when I was a kid.

[tomservo56954]

What is it with the men pulling the women around on their bottoms in what is clearly not even real snow--or even outside?

[munchkinsmomable]

These commercials always had white snow, waterfalls, clear sparkling water flowing down a stream, blue skies, snow-capped mountains....and then came the coupons. I think those were introduced after the surgeon general's warnings were required on cig packs.

[lovelovelovelyful]

Ummm I want a cigarette now.

[RoonyHD]

I got lung cancer and my mum got scared so she said you moving to the hospital in Bel-Air

[spamviking]

The fresh cigs of Bel-Air?

[ChristinaWolfle]

and now there all battling lung cancer

[Lagolop]

OMG this is great. Where did you dig this up?

[fromthesidelines]

It IS Geoff. While he was appearing on local L.A. radio, he also worked in commercials, and essayed various "bit parts" on TV shows (including "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in 1967). This is from 1968- and Raleigh [and, in the '60s, Belair] had offered "cigarette coupons" on the back of their packs as far back as the 1920s. "Marlboro Miles" is merely an updated version of the same merchandising "come-on" (Philip Morris tried the same gambit with their "Galaxy" and "Alpine" brands in the mid-'60s).

[elc1960]

"Naw, we don't smoke 'em because we like 'em - we smoke 'em because Abigail May here saves the handy dandy coupons on the back! You save 3,000,000 of 'em and you get a lighter that says 'Raleigh' on it!" The precursor to Marlboro Miles. You had to buy a lot of packs to get even the smallest, chintziest things (like a genuine artificial leatherette cigarette pouch with "Raleigh" or "BelAir" printed on it).

[DaizeeKnowsAll]

Ah, the 60's. Probably the best decade in the 20th century.

[inkey2]

@DaizeeKnowsAll up till kennedy was shot it was a good decade...then all hell broke loose......

[TonyMaximMuscles]

"They got us this percolator...and emphysema!!"

[acfinney1]

@TonyMaximMuscles TURN BLUE!  You too will die, so shut the fuck up.

[heine71]

I wonder, do you think the guy who is working on the pizza in the Raleigh commercial is game show host to be Geoff Edwards? It sounds like him.

[bluezstar12]

@heine71 it was him

[fancynot]

happy tonight with that fresh old fashion style, thnks ! ****