I'm of 2 minds on this. First off the nostalgia factor, the unmatchable stunning beauty of the women of this era (clean looking, long hair, very little makeup), it's just fascinating to be able to go back and enjoy these ads as period pieces.
That being said when the "Lady Be Kool" ads were airing my mother would have been in her early twenties (the demographic targeted in these ads) and yes thirty years later she did succumb to cancer like so many of her generation who indulged in cigarettes.
She wont be so cool in 10-20 years when that nice, tight face starts to sag and those teeth get plastered with tar and stains and her breath smells like a horses asshole.
@Thirdgen83 well considering she was probably in her 30s when the commercial was made, and that was 40 years ago, she very well may be dead now. From old age!
It was sad when Johnny Carson passed away.... they said he was a smoker, and that might have caused his death........the man was 83 years old! I hope to live that long, and I DO NOT smoke.... well, the occassional good cigar, which makes me a smoker to most of the politically correct, haha.
@MrGermanyjon The late great Mr. Carson passed away at 79 years of age. HE EXPRESSED HIS HATRED TOWARD CIGARETTES WHEN HE WAS EXPERIENCING THE EARLY STAGES OF EMPHYSEMA. He was proud that he had quit smoking, but he knew cigarettes had shortened his life span.
@hobokenplayboy Yes, Carson was a great man. And as I've stated on other posts; I am not an advocate of taking up smoking. But I will defend anyone's right to do it.
This was back in the days when grown-ups were allowed to watch commercials about an unhealthy product, and to make their own decisions about their habits and lives.
They're also the days when it was up to the parent to enforce what a child learns about the potential hazards of life, without government "help".
America: the "Land of the Free"...unless, of course, you do something others don't approve of.
@laronmaron98 I agree. I've collected cigarette ads since I was 9-10 years old, and I think my parents knew what was going on... my interaction with the print cigarette ads is sexual. They were both smokers, yes... one way or another, I have strong reason to believe that my mother thought I was better off with my cigarette ads, and cigarettes... as long as I didn't end up smoking like 2-3 packs a day, as she did. Today, no parent, no individual, really has that much choice any more.
Wonder if she was an actually Kool smoker before she made this commercial? Anyway, she did stink after she filmed it. Gotta agree with ya, there, rickyt!
@chrismuir111 Right on brother! And maybe something else will kill you and not necessarily cigarettes. My grandfather smoked well into his 80s and he died a non-smoking related death at 83...
I was 12 when cigarette ads were banned from TV and radio. I remember how well made many of them were. I never took up smoking, but I remember singing some of the cigarette commercial jingles. I don't recall ever seeing this ad, but it actually makes smoking Kools seem like a tasty experience.
We need to stop being cynical, get off this post-Reagan snobby attitude, ,with gentrification-ridden mentality and start regaining our rights back, the right to smoke being one of them. So much for clean air, my left foot!! There are other things that can kill you, stop blaming cigarettes for everything. I smoke and am proud to show people that I am old-fashioned with real American attitude. Dig it?! LONG LIVE THE 70s!!!
@AfterwardDeified I sure do man. I hope you feel the same way I do and it's getting even worse with that new law that is trying to take "menthol" away from our cigarettes. But there is hope...if Obama legalizes pot, maybe cigarette smoking will regain its status. Dig it?!
I definitely dig it, man, and I don't even smoke...tobacco, that is! See, you're a cool dude, you get it. We're so bankrupt as a country (in more ways than one), we don't understand that it's not about snarkiness, but about getting along with each other. Say what you will about these ads, but I like the community aspect of it...I would KILL to chill with these kind of people. And If "progress" means being overly sensitive about every little thing, then you can have it.
I love this blonde! Gotta offer her a Kool!! Light up people and let's save America from these capital bandits that are destroying our freedom to smoke!! Dig it?!
To those of you speculating on the grisley deaths suffered by smokers, you should know that less that 1/3 of heavy smokers die of smoking-related illnesses. The average age of a smoking-related death is 72.
@SmokefreeNewZealand You're really boring if all you focus on is living as long as you can. When you work so ridiculously hard to survive, you don't really live, do you?
These "Lady Be Kool" commercials were absolute works of art. They really are a relic of another time. You never see anyone smoking on TV nowadays in almost any context. Back in 1970 not only did you see them smoking on TV, they advertised it! Amazing.
"Everything about her is stylishly long...from her black lungs to her smoke filled hair...and tastefully kool...excitingly kool...lady be kool...soon the cancer spreads...soon you'll be dead...."
Hah! Well done, macgregor1975! Soon she will be stylishly embalmed, and look so nice and stylishly kool when laid out at the funeral home. HACK! HACK! HACK!
I hate to break it to you, but soon we'll all be dead. It's called life. Enjoy it while you're young. I was just waiting for someone to mention the whole cancer thing, I hope you warned us of the dangers of drunk driving in an alcohol ad, and the dangers of obesity in a fast food ad so you can be the sanctimonious big brother we wish we never had :)
Very true. I knew a woman who died of a heart attack at age 42. She did not smoke or drink. Her vice was a large sausage pizza every night! There are a lot of things that can get us, and smoking is only one of them. Even if one eats only fish and vegetables and does all the right things cancer can still happen to anyone at anytime, even kids and babies. There is no guarantee anyone will live to be old. Still, smoking will certainly catch up to you over time if you smoke excessively!
Nowadays? That's not a new trend! I think they were trying to get white chicks to do it in these ads. Guess the ads weren't that effective after all!!!
Certainly you're not suggesting that this is the 'myth' forwarded in this cigarette commercial, so presumably you're forwarding some nature of counter-'myth'. One might also suggest that people who eat, and drink sugary foods, and beverages will more likely get fat, say, and similarly "meet a grim fate." Is it that if it's "new", it must be "better?" I'm not sure what precisely "grim" might be, but "new" perhaps necessarily implies the avoidance of any possible "grim fate?" We're now so wise...?
I totally agree. I just posted my 2 cents in a reply to that dude. These ads are awesome, regardless of whether you smoke or you don't. I choose not to, but it doesn't give me the right to be leave comments that have more to do with the product than the artistic qualities of the ad. Well now that we know everything is bad for us, we'll lead much longer, and more miserable lives in the decades to come. Can't wait! Thank you for bringing these ads to us though, I love vintage tobacco ads.
The fact is that we don't know everything that bad for us - in the 60s they also thought they knew everything that's bad for them.. it's generally accepted to consider some things harmful and others not - not necesserly they are that way - the commercial effect... in the 30s people were told cigarettes are good 4 health - now we're told mobiles don't have radiation... btw - I love vintage ads too - they are simply beautiful
I'm of 2 minds on this. First off the nostalgia factor, the unmatchable stunning beauty of the women of this era (clean looking, long hair, very little makeup), it's just fascinating to be able to go back and enjoy these ads as period pieces.
That being said when the "Lady Be Kool" ads were airing my mother would have been in her early twenties (the demographic targeted in these ads) and yes thirty years later she did succumb to cancer like so many of her generation who indulged in cigarettes.
jldraw 2 months ago
hilariously stupid!
chubyali 4 months ago
She wont be so cool in 10-20 years when that nice, tight face starts to sag and those teeth get plastered with tar and stains and her breath smells like a horses asshole.
m1up 5 months ago
I wonder what she looks like now
SuperSixinches 5 months ago
be Kool, bitch!
vincent21212 5 months ago
Garry Moore used to smoke right there on the stage at I've Got a Secret. I believe that he died from cancer too.
nanlisa 5 months ago
Saw my dad die of lung cancer....it was not stylish I can tell you that.
xpat73 6 months ago 5
@xpat73 Yes, my mother died of lung cancer. Agreed, lung cancer is a miserable way to die.
pmccarthy001 6 months ago
@pmccarthy001
We drink Hennessy, We smoke KOOLS, WE'S NIGGAZ! WE'S LIKE TO FUCK UP SHIT!
Mikuruification 4 months ago
@pmccarthy001 Yea but they had a lifetime of enjoying the refreshing cool taste of kool!
gillyssquashball 4 months ago
@xpat73 You anti-smokers never give up. Just shut it.
Treelinesmoker 4 months ago
Where's the Kools commercial where they were at a bar or something and the band is playing the song "Play it Kools!"?
sexyones09 6 months ago
you know what else causes cancer? everything.
bjj234 7 months ago
@bjj234 and thats so true!
troodon2 6 months ago
Sooo funny...it's hard to belive people fell for that kinda crap.
onlyweknow2 9 months ago
If kools are so "cool" why she leave 'em on the beach?
publica74 9 months ago 2
eeww cigarretts are bad smoke the blunt!!!!!!
TrollingPatrolling 10 months ago
And now......she's DEAD...
Thirdgen83 11 months ago 5
@Thirdgen83 well considering she was probably in her 30s when the commercial was made, and that was 40 years ago, she very well may be dead now. From old age!
It was sad when Johnny Carson passed away.... they said he was a smoker, and that might have caused his death........the man was 83 years old! I hope to live that long, and I DO NOT smoke.... well, the occassional good cigar, which makes me a smoker to most of the politically correct, haha.
MrGermanyjon 11 months ago
@MrGermanyjon The late great Mr. Carson passed away at 79 years of age. HE EXPRESSED HIS HATRED TOWARD CIGARETTES WHEN HE WAS EXPERIENCING THE EARLY STAGES OF EMPHYSEMA. He was proud that he had quit smoking, but he knew cigarettes had shortened his life span.
hobokenplayboy 11 months ago
@hobokenplayboy Yes, Carson was a great man. And as I've stated on other posts; I am not an advocate of taking up smoking. But I will defend anyone's right to do it.
MrGermanyjon 11 months ago
@Thirdgen83 And so are you.
FaganRoberts 9 months ago
@FaganRoberts 'Real intelligent comment, FaggetRoberts...
Thirdgen83 9 months ago
@Thirdgen83 Life kills.
FaganRoberts 9 months ago
0:31 - 0:34 Thats what she said XD
Bpunk360s 11 months ago
Sigh...
This was back in the days when grown-ups were allowed to watch commercials about an unhealthy product, and to make their own decisions about their habits and lives.
They're also the days when it was up to the parent to enforce what a child learns about the potential hazards of life, without government "help".
America: the "Land of the Free"...unless, of course, you do something others don't approve of.
laronmaron98 11 months ago 21
@laronmaron98 I agree. I've collected cigarette ads since I was 9-10 years old, and I think my parents knew what was going on... my interaction with the print cigarette ads is sexual. They were both smokers, yes... one way or another, I have strong reason to believe that my mother thought I was better off with my cigarette ads, and cigarettes... as long as I didn't end up smoking like 2-3 packs a day, as she did. Today, no parent, no individual, really has that much choice any more.
pmccarthy001 11 months ago
@laronmaron98 very well put.
MrGermanyjon 11 months ago
@laronmaron98 You sound like a Ron Paul fan. I like that.
rhinnawi95 8 months ago
@laronmaron98
I know right...Those were the days! Now this woman would be arrested for smoking....ON THE BEACH!!!
WinstonMan1000 7 months ago
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NoGoodBoyo1000 7 months ago
@laronmaron98 So true! It's so refreshing to see someone think logically!
Treelinesmoker 4 months ago
@laronmaron98 reminds me of the star trek episode where they outlawed violent thought...
phalxor 4 months ago
Wonder if she was an actually Kool smoker before she made this commercial? Anyway, she did stink after she filmed it. Gotta agree with ya, there, rickyt!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
goshhh,,, stylish mind control! XD
cinematographer 1 year ago
She looked like trash as soon as she started smoking. Smokers Stink Stank and stunked.
rickyt247 1 year ago
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@chrismuir111 Right on brother! And maybe something else will kill you and not necessarily cigarettes. My grandfather smoked well into his 80s and he died a non-smoking related death at 83...
70sman4ever 1 year ago
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70sman4ever 1 year ago
I was 12 when cigarette ads were banned from TV and radio. I remember how well made many of them were. I never took up smoking, but I remember singing some of the cigarette commercial jingles. I don't recall ever seeing this ad, but it actually makes smoking Kools seem like a tasty experience.
ftsjr 1 year ago
So pretty...so cool..."cough,cough,cough!!!" Hahaha!
Navdan87 1 year ago
We need to stop being cynical, get off this post-Reagan snobby attitude, ,with gentrification-ridden mentality and start regaining our rights back, the right to smoke being one of them. So much for clean air, my left foot!! There are other things that can kill you, stop blaming cigarettes for everything. I smoke and am proud to show people that I am old-fashioned with real American attitude. Dig it?! LONG LIVE THE 70s!!!
70sman4ever 1 year ago
@70sman4ever
Don't you fucking hate this postmodern shit?
AfterwardDeified 1 year ago
@AfterwardDeified I sure do man. I hope you feel the same way I do and it's getting even worse with that new law that is trying to take "menthol" away from our cigarettes. But there is hope...if Obama legalizes pot, maybe cigarette smoking will regain its status. Dig it?!
70sman4ever 1 year ago
@70sman4ever
I definitely dig it, man, and I don't even smoke...tobacco, that is! See, you're a cool dude, you get it. We're so bankrupt as a country (in more ways than one), we don't understand that it's not about snarkiness, but about getting along with each other. Say what you will about these ads, but I like the community aspect of it...I would KILL to chill with these kind of people. And If "progress" means being overly sensitive about every little thing, then you can have it.
AfterwardDeified 1 year ago
I love this blonde! Gotta offer her a Kool!! Light up people and let's save America from these capital bandits that are destroying our freedom to smoke!! Dig it?!
70sman4ever 1 year ago
To those of you speculating on the grisley deaths suffered by smokers, you should know that less that 1/3 of heavy smokers die of smoking-related illnesses. The average age of a smoking-related death is 72.
msdiediedie 1 year ago
@msdiediedie That is old enough, I wanna die before I'm 50!
70sman4ever 1 year ago
Kissing a girl who smokes is like licking an ashtray.
(I don't have a girlfriend, but you should see my ashtray collection! :)
msdiediedie 1 year ago
no this add isn't targeting children at all
jakehubbb 1 year ago
i wonder what all these tobacco haters will do when the govt turns thier witch hunt on them for mayber being obese or not being phyisical fit ??
lowaces 1 year ago
her painful death will also be 'long'!
SmokefreeNewZealand 1 year ago
@SmokefreeNewZealand You're really boring if all you focus on is living as long as you can. When you work so ridiculously hard to survive, you don't really live, do you?
imsebbot123 7 months ago
I bet those 2 both have died of emphysema by now........ Cough ! Cough ! Cough !
negrofetish 2 years ago
These "Lady Be Kool" commercials were absolute works of art. They really are a relic of another time. You never see anyone smoking on TV nowadays in almost any context. Back in 1970 not only did you see them smoking on TV, they advertised it! Amazing.
ab348 2 years ago 18
Funny, but in countries such as Japan where people smoke much more than we do... they seem to live longer. Interesting...
laughingtiger123 2 years ago
I'd let her smoke my 'kool'
Deovindice2001 2 years ago 2
"Everything about her is stylishly long...from her black lungs to her smoke filled hair...and tastefully kool...excitingly kool...lady be kool...soon the cancer spreads...soon you'll be dead...."
macgregor1975 2 years ago
Hah! Well done, macgregor1975! Soon she will be stylishly embalmed, and look so nice and stylishly kool when laid out at the funeral home. HACK! HACK! HACK!
chrisman737 2 years ago
I hate to break it to you, but soon we'll all be dead. It's called life. Enjoy it while you're young. I was just waiting for someone to mention the whole cancer thing, I hope you warned us of the dangers of drunk driving in an alcohol ad, and the dangers of obesity in a fast food ad so you can be the sanctimonious big brother we wish we never had :)
reymatt76 2 years ago
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reymatt76 2 years ago
Very true. I knew a woman who died of a heart attack at age 42. She did not smoke or drink. Her vice was a large sausage pizza every night! There are a lot of things that can get us, and smoking is only one of them. Even if one eats only fish and vegetables and does all the right things cancer can still happen to anyone at anytime, even kids and babies. There is no guarantee anyone will live to be old. Still, smoking will certainly catch up to you over time if you smoke excessively!
derek6374 2 years ago
Nowdays, only old nigs blow Kools.
BuckySolo 3 years ago
Nowadays? That's not a new trend! I think they were trying to get white chicks to do it in these ads. Guess the ads weren't that effective after all!!!
reymatt76 2 years ago
who ever eats meat too much meets a grim fate :O (Pmccarthy001, i agree with you.) 5/5 for the video! ^^ (i subscribed too (=)
thedudeagainsttheQQ 3 years ago
who ever smokes will meet a grim fate
kyori22 3 years ago
Certainly you're not suggesting that this is the 'myth' forwarded in this cigarette commercial, so presumably you're forwarding some nature of counter-'myth'. One might also suggest that people who eat, and drink sugary foods, and beverages will more likely get fat, say, and similarly "meet a grim fate." Is it that if it's "new", it must be "better?" I'm not sure what precisely "grim" might be, but "new" perhaps necessarily implies the avoidance of any possible "grim fate?" We're now so wise...?
pmccarthy001 3 years ago 6
I totally agree. I just posted my 2 cents in a reply to that dude. These ads are awesome, regardless of whether you smoke or you don't. I choose not to, but it doesn't give me the right to be leave comments that have more to do with the product than the artistic qualities of the ad. Well now that we know everything is bad for us, we'll lead much longer, and more miserable lives in the decades to come. Can't wait! Thank you for bringing these ads to us though, I love vintage tobacco ads.
reymatt76 2 years ago 4
@reymatt76
Great attitude - Nietzshe's last man))))
The fact is that we don't know everything that bad for us - in the 60s they also thought they knew everything that's bad for them.. it's generally accepted to consider some things harmful and others not - not necesserly they are that way - the commercial effect... in the 30s people were told cigarettes are good 4 health - now we're told mobiles don't have radiation... btw - I love vintage ads too - they are simply beautiful
2468ali 2 years ago
@pmccarthy001 'drink sugary foods' ??? XD
lolgirly100 1 year ago