why is there no more chesterfield in the market?? This commercial is 1950s? today is 2011... What happened to this product?? Who is the company responsible for the marketing and production? :)
They don't want this stuff on youtube because the media is pointing fingers at them, Whatever they are evil companies but the media is still lying about it and that is bullshit.
trademarks and copywrites eventually become eminent domain after a certain amount of years so the cigarette mfg no longer has a legal right to pull this off youTube.Its public property now. Same as any music or books that are over 75 years old
Who needs professional smokers! I'm willing to bite the bullet on behalf of all of you out there in the ethernet and be a professional beer drinker! Not a taster, who swishes it around in their mouth, but a downright swiller/swallower! So, breweries, here I am! But no Bud, though I love the Bud Light commercials. But I'd happily accept a commission from Guiness! Served properly at room temperature, there's no beer, lager, pilsner, or stout better. So put me in, coach, I'm ready to play!
Where can I apply to be a professional smoker? Smoking thousands and thousands of cigarettes and being paid for it sounds just wonderful! As a sidenote, I smoked for 30 years and did the math. I consumed 2 tons of nicotine during my smoking career! I hope Chesterfield will hire me!!
This video starts with the NBC show from December 24, 1948 but is really 3 clips (starting at 0:00 – 0:50 – 1:52) from at least 2 different shows. The last clip ends with “This is CBS…” which puts it between October 2, 1950 and June 24, 1955. Also note the absence of those big microphones and use of the oversized hat to block the camera means this show has been staged for a visual audience.
Monsters I had Three Adults constantly smoking as I was growing up
Mother 68 (lung cancer) Father 66 ( lung cancer) the 1960's and 1970's were the worst.
It took until my late 40's until this country UK caught up with my hatred. I rarely went to the cinema. I prefered to stay outdoors away from the constant smell.
My mother smoked when she was pregnant, My HBP stems from this. My son is 12 He is already taller than both his parents. The future is a bright place (Smoke free)
That old jingle you hear at 0:34 went (in its entirity) "A - Always Milder! B - Better Tasting! C - Cooler Smoking!" Which was, of course, followed up by "Always Buy Chesterfield . . . they satisfyyyyyy . . . !"
I wonder how many "Professional Smokers" hacked up a morning " Oyster" after professionally smoking the day before! No aftertaste? I wonder how that morning "Oyster" tasted!
@odhe1lo Probably all of them. They'd be all 90+ years old at this point, much less the smoking. I bet pretty much everybody in this clip is dead now.
Why only to smoke thousands and thousands and not millions of cigarrettes? If someone would smoke as a professional and would be fast enough smoking, say less than 3 minutes for each, then in 12 hours (extra time paid) someone could smoke 240. 1 million / 240 = 4166 days = 11,4 years. Ah, ok, they only had time to smoke some thousands or it would be too long.
Perry Como was smoooooth! Not only his voice, but the way he filled in the extra time at the end of their first televised program! He reminded me of a young Paul Newman. He didn't have the amazing eyes, but he sure had the looks and a natural singing voice if I ever heard one! /// Now lets check back with our smoking researchers 10 years later and find out how many of them live in oxygen tents!
@CineGraphic Folks at Phillip Morris. Back when this commercial was made Chesterfield was a cigarette company, but since then their competitor bought them out.
I smoke unfiltered Chesterfield Kings (order 'em online). Even though the commercials are a crock of shit, folks, the cigarettes aren't. There's a reason Humphrey Bogart only smoked Chesterfields.
@CineGraphic You know the sad part, they could admit they were wrong back then and that cigs are harmful but it doesnt matter cause they already have ppl hooked to nicotine...just like now..no cig ads on tv, warning labels on cigs, states suing cig companies, and cigs are better than ever
It seems like in in that time period 90% of the country smoked. You could bum a cigarette off practically everybody and not have to buy your own pack.
@4SCARECROWS you're right.....virtually everyone over the age of 14 smoked back then. In fact it was considered quite odd not to be a smoker. My parents were the only people I knew that did not smoke
If they were so great, then why did they stop selling them? Who was the woman in the HUGE HAT? When I was a child, they used to show this HUGE hat in old cartoons.
Perry was on the air for Chesterfield between 1944 and '55; the "SUPPER CLUB" from 1944 through '50 [the last two years on TV], then his thrice-weekly 15 minute show (which was also simulcast on Mutual radio for several years), right after Douglas Edwards' nightly CBS newscast. By then, Durward Kirby had succeeded veteran deejay Martin Block as the show's announcer. The Kirby pitch and Perry's closing number appears to be from early 1951, when CBS still used their "spotlight" I.D.....
Cigarettes were a huge business in the 40s and 50s. Also the biggest paying advertisers on radio, television, magazine ads and outdoor billboards. This is a great clip.
@webmail111 SECOND HAND SMOKE YOU CAN BE KILLING SOMEONE SOME ONE WITHOUT KNOWING ITTT MURDER SECOND HAND SMOKE NEEDS TO STOP PEOPLE DONT WANT TO DO RIGHTOUSNESS THEY WANT TO HURT OTHERS DO BAD TO OTHERS SEE THATS WHY THOSE PEOPLE ARE SO SAD SAD AND MISERABLE ARE SO SADDD AND
@webmail111 MISERABLE THE CHOICE IS YOURS TO MAKEEE GOD BLESS ALL ANIMALS INSECTS BUGS GOD LIVES IN ALL THATS WHY EATING MEAT AND EGG IS WRONG GREEN HOUSE GASES WASTENG ELECTRICITY WATER PEOPLE GET DIRTY WATER PEOPLE DONT WANT TO DO RIGHTOUSNESS SEE THATS WHY THOSE PEOPLE ARE SO SADDD
What is going on with people nowadays? back in my times people smoked a lot but you never heard that someone died from cancer, actually, they lived more time than today.
Amazing, this was 61 years ago!!! The attitude towards smoking has sure changed since then.
For those of you making comments about how these people would have died by now from cancer, even if they had not smoked they would all be dead by now anyway.
Most people in this video would be around 100 years of age if they were still alive, which is doubtful.
to mfnheff: as to your comment 5 months ago about finding fresh Chesterfields> You can re-hydrate tobacco real easy. Open the pack and see how dry they are. If real dry: place the pack opened in a small sealable jar or plastic bowl. Then take a small wad of paper towel...the size of a quarter and wet it. Place it in the container with the open pack, seal the container tight....by the next day you should have some nice fresh cigs. This is the same thing they do to fine cigars that have dried out
Starts with NBC Logo, ends with Columbia Broadcasting (CBS) ID. Im certain Como was on NBC, but maybe that wasnt until the 50s? May thanks for posting this. Kindest regards.
I don't think young people realize how BIG a part of life "smoking" was years ago. It was a very social habit. When I would visit my grand parents circa 1960....all the relitives would be over....the smoke in the house was so thick it was like walking through fog. If you didn't smoke people thought you were an "odd duck" people smoked EVERYWHERE...hospitals, DRs offices, at work, at home, in restaurants....some colleges allowed it in class.
You forgot the Cigarette Smoking parties. These days we have cocktail parties, where the entertainment revolves around conversation and having mixed drinks. In the days of this commercial, people would have cigarette parties--they'd put out bowls of cigarettes for their friends.
Cigarettes or not, this is a great piece of television history, and I thank you for adding it. It is a great glimpse into how people lived, and thought, back in the day.
Funny how every old tobacco ad on YouTube has legions of rabid anti-smokers screaming bloody murder and making snide remarks. Not content with tobacco advertising being all but nonexistent in the modern world, they whine about television ads that haven't aired in 60 years and think they're being clever when they point out that most of the smokers in the commercial (judging by their ages most born in the 1910s) are now dead. Yeah, no shit.
AT the time, NBC carried "CHESTERFIELD SUPPER CLUB" on radio five nights a week [7-7:15pm(et)], 'tee', and also on TV from this broadcast until 1950. This initial TV edition, seen at 11pm(et), was actually the "West Coast" version of the radio show, as a "repeat broadcast" was necessary for West Coast listeners to hear it at a more convenient time [8pm, Pacific Time]. After three weeks, however, the 7pm Friday edition was simulcast for the rest of the season.
if i can knock 20 years of of this already pointless life then great! who the fuck wants to be 80 when most people are already dead just walking around aimlessly day to day waiting to be buried.
No unpleasent aftertaste eh? How could you taste anything after smoking "thousands and thousands" or cigs? What about unpleasent aftersmell (AKA stale smoke). Oh thats right, after thousands and thousands of cigs you can't smell anything can you?
I'd love to know what happened to all the "expert smokers." There have to have been a lot of lost lungs, cancers of the lips, mouths and throats, tracheostomies and other kinds of suffering leading to slow deaths for many of them. On top of it they probably felt guilty for having smoked and brought it on themselves. Personal choice, apparently. Heartbreaking that we as a society swallowed the manipulation and made the biggest drug dealers of all rich while we paid with our lives and our health.
Sure, it's "propaganda", as someone described it. But everyone engages in propaganda for their own ends, including your most recent hero, B. Hussein Obama. No one stuck a gun to anyone's temple and forced them to smoke.By the way, this must have come from two separate telecasts, because (and I am speaking you who are oblivious because of your drug usage and attendance at modern-day schools) the clip opens with the NBC television logo, and closes with the CBS logo.
thats a funny spot. " smokin thousands and thousands..."
in the past i prefered chesterfield,too. but today they are not the same anymore at least here in germany. now they are low-price cigs and taste so cheap. now i smoke "laramies".
What a pleasure to see this! 1948 telecast with Perry Como! When the woman sits down in front of Perry...you want to say: "Miss...would you mind removing your hat?"
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Given free tobacco to stay calm and alcohol to be brave, American kids made fine soldiers. Smokin and drinking aside, that was a damn fine generation of Americans. Don't know how Hitler felt about it but American tobacco was highly prized by German troops too.
My grandfather was a "professional smoker". He was paid to stand around schoolyards and look cool while smoking Camels.
We all know that anyone associated with the tobacco industry is evil, from the growers to the guy who hands you the pack in 7-11. Also, they're all child pornographers and all supported Hitler during World War II.
So it isn't fascist for cannabis to be illegal because it's been that way for nearly 100 years? Is that what your saying, remember drugs were all once legal products too until fascists decided we shouldn't have access to them and if they had their way alcohol would still be illegal too. Make your own choices in life, don't let anyone else make your decisions for you, if you want to drink, smoke or use drugs, that's your business, as long as you hurt no one else it should be your choice.
"kevt31: Hitler was strict anti smoker he banned smoking in public places. The really facsists are people who try and stop people using a lawfull product."
Imagine being asked about your previous job.
Interviewer: What was your previous job?
Applicant: I was a professional smoker.
Interviewer: Why did you leave?
Applicant: Well, I developed a case of smokers cough.
ebf1957 1 week ago
OMG I forgot we use to be a free country.
garybsg 1 month ago 2
@garybsg lmao oh my god, ... dude your totaly right. Do they even make cherterfields any more?
IITECHxNiNEII 2 weeks ago
why is there no more chesterfield in the market?? This commercial is 1950s? today is 2011... What happened to this product?? Who is the company responsible for the marketing and production? :)
johngojira 1 month ago
I DON'T WANT IT MILD! I WANT IT WITHOUT FILTER AND VERY HARD!!
donemoretimed 2 months ago
I want to become a cigarette technician......Where are the jobs Boehner?
eddie054 2 months ago
So ironic :D
MrThroll 4 months ago
Man, Ithat's a really good ad actually, i want to smoke
MrNoobophile 5 months ago
Me: You hear that? Professional smokers!
Roommate: Yeah
Me: Who the hell gets paid to smoke?
Roommate: Labrats...
Me: What a prestigious occupation. I bet their opinions are valued.
Roommate: Exactly!
luccaskunk 5 months ago
did they really need a cigarette hooked up to a beaker? I mean didn't they have enough professinals at hand?
g4ngzta420 5 months ago
Mommy, that's what I wanna' be when I grow up. Either that or a professional drunk.
kingmackattack42 5 months ago 3
why did almost every cigarette commercial in the 1950's have people singing...?
blackjack18md 6 months ago
@blackjack18md actually many commercials in the 1950s had singing......hopefully a very catchy tune so the viewer couldn't get it out of their head
inkey2 2 months ago
Holy Fudge Squares~ professional smokers??? Wow~ I can't wait until they start hiring professional e-cig vapers :):):)
teceyS3 6 months ago
These professional smokers' lungs were later analyzed and it was determined that being a professional smoker is a dangerous profession.
DWolf2k2 6 months ago
They don't want this stuff on youtube because the media is pointing fingers at them, Whatever they are evil companies but the media is still lying about it and that is bullshit.
onlyadot 7 months ago
trademarks and copywrites eventually become eminent domain after a certain amount of years so the cigarette mfg no longer has a legal right to pull this off youTube.Its public property now. Same as any music or books that are over 75 years old
MrJohnisthename 7 months ago
Yeah, But where are these people Now? DEAD!
ThePaddyjoejr1 8 months ago 2
@ThePaddyjoejr1 remember that people that don't smoke aren't immortal...
hateofgod666 7 months ago
@hateofgod666 Oh Yeah? Well,I Am!
ThePaddyjoejr1 7 months ago
@ThePaddyjoejr1 Well it was recorded in 1948 lol
5000433 6 months ago
they disabled the audio.
Napalmdeath420 8 months ago
@Napalmdeath420 It's mono, left channel, make sure both of your speakers are plugged in/on.
CineGraphic 8 months ago
@CineGraphic weird, all four of my speakers are on, all it does is crackle.
Napalmdeath420 8 months ago
@Napalmdeath420 Your surround sound system doesn't know how to handle a mono signal, what a shame.
CineGraphic 8 months ago 8
@CineGraphic Yea pretty crazy, i think one of the plugs is in the wrong slot, idk. maybe one day ill look.
Napalmdeath420 8 months ago
@CineGraphic Thanks for pointing that out, now I have my speakers hooked up right, and can now hear left channel. I can hear the ad now.
Napalmdeath420 7 months ago
Sing it Mr. C!
mistressofaminer 8 months ago
I tried these when I was 16 and, they taste like wood
Tbraves111 8 months ago
That next pack may be aces and eights.
tboltjohn 9 months ago
Professional smoker? How do I get that job?
dlmsuperdave 9 months ago
Who needs professional smokers! I'm willing to bite the bullet on behalf of all of you out there in the ethernet and be a professional beer drinker! Not a taster, who swishes it around in their mouth, but a downright swiller/swallower! So, breweries, here I am! But no Bud, though I love the Bud Light commercials. But I'd happily accept a commission from Guiness! Served properly at room temperature, there's no beer, lager, pilsner, or stout better. So put me in, coach, I'm ready to play!
gcooper8 9 months ago
Where can I apply to be a professional smoker? Smoking thousands and thousands of cigarettes and being paid for it sounds just wonderful! As a sidenote, I smoked for 30 years and did the math. I consumed 2 tons of nicotine during my smoking career! I hope Chesterfield will hire me!!
GreyMidniteMoonlight 9 months ago
This video starts with the NBC show from December 24, 1948 but is really 3 clips (starting at 0:00 – 0:50 – 1:52) from at least 2 different shows. The last clip ends with “This is CBS…” which puts it between October 2, 1950 and June 24, 1955. Also note the absence of those big microphones and use of the oversized hat to block the camera means this show has been staged for a visual audience.
nyreborn 9 months ago
They leave no unpleasant aftercancer.
stefonamus 10 months ago 2
Monsters I had Three Adults constantly smoking as I was growing up
Mother 68 (lung cancer) Father 66 ( lung cancer) the 1960's and 1970's were the worst.
It took until my late 40's until this country UK caught up with my hatred. I rarely went to the cinema. I prefered to stay outdoors away from the constant smell.
My mother smoked when she was pregnant, My HBP stems from this. My son is 12 He is already taller than both his parents. The future is a bright place (Smoke free)
teddingtontcu 10 months ago
@teddingtontcu : Time to get a life. ;])
buzzclick500 9 months ago
That old jingle you hear at 0:34 went (in its entirity) "A - Always Milder! B - Better Tasting! C - Cooler Smoking!" Which was, of course, followed up by "Always Buy Chesterfield . . . they satisfyyyyyy . . . !"
elc1960 10 months ago
Just wondering if there's a pro smokers' tour circuit, like in golf and bowling?
elc1960 10 months ago
cigarretes can give you pleasure mmm interesting, who need whores then .....
metallicaaaa1 11 months ago
ABC? But were watching NBC.
RPULTZ69 11 months ago
Classic!
NeanderthalStudios 11 months ago
A professional smoker!!! Where do I sign up???
mtfune 11 months ago
I wonder how many "Professional Smokers" hacked up a morning " Oyster" after professionally smoking the day before! No aftertaste? I wonder how that morning "Oyster" tasted!
stefonamus 1 year ago
Expert smokers? Under strict laboratory controls??
This is too funny. and sad at the same time. Q: What do you do for al iving? A: "I"M a professional smoker!"
Hey, who needs rats? Just get some professional smokers. Now if they would tell us who has the best weed. . .
elsangrecaliente 1 year ago
The announcer at 00:50, describing the group of men and women, reminds me of Durward Kirby.
impCaesarAvg 1 year ago
@impCaesarAvg It IS Durward Kirby who later was co-host of Candid Camera with Alan Funt.
boblackey1 11 months ago
"they smoked thousands and thousands of cigarettes" this is brillent
vandexter101 1 year ago
Wonder how many of those professional smokers are dead now?
odhe1lo 1 year ago
@odhe1lo Probably all of them. They'd be all 90+ years old at this point, much less the smoking. I bet pretty much everybody in this clip is dead now.
TreyMeans3 11 months ago
I hear a mouse in my computer
eyesandnines 1 year ago 2
Why only to smoke thousands and thousands and not millions of cigarrettes? If someone would smoke as a professional and would be fast enough smoking, say less than 3 minutes for each, then in 12 hours (extra time paid) someone could smoke 240. 1 million / 240 = 4166 days = 11,4 years. Ah, ok, they only had time to smoke some thousands or it would be too long.
nmgscp 1 year ago
Those professional smokers huffing away at those Chesterbuster ciggs look like drunks at a bar.
evilaggression 1 year ago 2
Im a professional smoker. lol
Quicksilver903 1 year ago
Perry Como was smoooooth! Not only his voice, but the way he filled in the extra time at the end of their first televised program! He reminded me of a young Paul Newman. He didn't have the amazing eyes, but he sure had the looks and a natural singing voice if I ever heard one! /// Now lets check back with our smoking researchers 10 years later and find out how many of them live in oxygen tents!
Hypsan 1 year ago
Wait it was an NBC show broadcasted by CBS. EHHHH?
joe579003 1 year ago
Professional gueany pigs!
stefonamus 1 year ago
all the tasters mysteriously died of lung cancer
fakespotter 1 year ago
I saw new Chesterfield at the store. I didn't try it, but my friend did, he said that he didn't like it and it's piece of crap. I need to try it.
Ralfiukas 1 year ago
The fine folks at Chesterfield TRIED and FAILED to have this film removed from Youtube.
CineGraphic 1 year ago 26
@CineGraphic Folks at Phillip Morris. Back when this commercial was made Chesterfield was a cigarette company, but since then their competitor bought them out.
I smoke unfiltered Chesterfield Kings (order 'em online). Even though the commercials are a crock of shit, folks, the cigarettes aren't. There's a reason Humphrey Bogart only smoked Chesterfields.
TheParkusEmpire 1 year ago
@CineGraphic You know the sad part, they could admit they were wrong back then and that cigs are harmful but it doesnt matter cause they already have ppl hooked to nicotine...just like now..no cig ads on tv, warning labels on cigs, states suing cig companies, and cigs are better than ever
stevefromPA2 10 months ago
@CineGraphic ?
IITECHxNiNEII 2 weeks ago
They still have the Best and Brightest minds in chemsitry.
liquid49286 1 year ago
hehe her hat at the end looks like lungs. one busted
DrummerJRim 1 year ago
Cigarette taste panel , LOL!
Insurgent999 1 year ago
Smoke up, die young, reduce traffic!
teddysalad65 1 year ago
It seems like in in that time period 90% of the country smoked. You could bum a cigarette off practically everybody and not have to buy your own pack.
4SCARECROWS 1 year ago
@4SCARECROWS you're right.....virtually everyone over the age of 14 smoked back then. In fact it was considered quite odd not to be a smoker. My parents were the only people I knew that did not smoke
inkey2 1 year ago
Mister C. Perry Como.
frankd1965 1 year ago
is ironic, now in the TV can't see spots of cigarretes
semeva 1 year ago
no, no, no. Winston tastes good like a cigarette should :)
dogdogaaaaa 1 year ago
I realise the seriousness of this. but its is very very funny,
stellaga 1 year ago
If they were so great, then why did they stop selling them? Who was the woman in the HUGE HAT? When I was a child, they used to show this HUGE hat in old cartoons.
Sheri451 1 year ago
The smoke for the true pro!
calimar28 1 year ago
they would give you a milder, smoother form of cancer
RJiminez51 1 year ago
They tested and compared leading brands, smoking thousands and thousands of cigarettes... Smoking pro's! Killz me :D
mykolas1990 2 years ago 6
I wish i could be a pro smoker
chorr84 2 years ago 5
"smoking thousands and thousands of cigarettes. " On noo! :) //on the next broadcast .."shortly afterward they all died...of um...natural causes."
johnnyph12 2 years ago
PPPPPPRRRRRRRRRooooooooooooooooooooooooo
shakabra101 2 years ago
Perry was on the air for Chesterfield between 1944 and '55; the "SUPPER CLUB" from 1944 through '50 [the last two years on TV], then his thrice-weekly 15 minute show (which was also simulcast on Mutual radio for several years), right after Douglas Edwards' nightly CBS newscast. By then, Durward Kirby had succeeded veteran deejay Martin Block as the show's announcer. The Kirby pitch and Perry's closing number appears to be from early 1951, when CBS still used their "spotlight" I.D.....
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
Well I certainly wouldn't take the recommendation of an AMATEUR smoker.
defundthewar 2 years ago 45
@defundthewar That commerical was so convincing, I'm going to take up smoking now.
boblackey1 1 year ago
Cigarettes were a huge business in the 40s and 50s. Also the biggest paying advertisers on radio, television, magazine ads and outdoor billboards. This is a great clip.
joshpembers 2 years ago 13
@joshpembers and today is a huge busnises, i am from spain and 1 chesterfield cigarrete box cost 3'75 € in USA 4.48650 USD ( i use a money converter)
semeva 1 year ago
I wonder if health coverage that comes with the job of being a professional smoker covers things like chemo and radiation treatment for cancer.
chrisman737 2 years ago 9
a pro smoker?
kotraquin 2 years ago 8
this is so bloody crazy! and now funny.
InathGanj 2 years ago 7
umm C=Smoother Smoking? wtf?
ShaolinViolin 2 years ago
cooler smoking not smooth
miesniex25 2 years ago 2
i smoke chesterfild cigarets :D and thy taste mailder and no after taste :D:D:D
miesniex25 2 years ago
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BeemerLanding 2 years ago
1:06, the guy is studying the thing like he's actually doing an important, careful job. They're thoughtful faces are hilarious.
BeemerLanding 2 years ago 2
its like smoking dried ice !
sirnyk 2 years ago
I have tried them all...to me the best non-filtered cigerette is Pall Mall.....
inkey2 2 years ago 3
that is what my father smoked pall mall non filters
kotraquin 2 years ago
inkey2:
Nah, Camels were the best unfiltered. but
sure glad i stopped smoking 27 years ago.
webmail111 2 years ago 3
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@webmail111 SECOND HAND SMOKE YOU CAN BE KILLING SOMEONE SOME ONE WITHOUT KNOWING ITTT MURDER SECOND HAND SMOKE NEEDS TO STOP PEOPLE DONT WANT TO DO RIGHTOUSNESS THEY WANT TO HURT OTHERS DO BAD TO OTHERS SEE THATS WHY THOSE PEOPLE ARE SO SAD SAD AND MISERABLE ARE SO SADDD AND
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@webmail111 MISERABLE THE CHOICE IS YOURS TO MAKEEE GOD BLESS ALL ANIMALS INSECTS BUGS GOD LIVES IN ALL THATS WHY EATING MEAT AND EGG IS WRONG GREEN HOUSE GASES WASTENG ELECTRICITY WATER PEOPLE GET DIRTY WATER PEOPLE DONT WANT TO DO RIGHTOUSNESS SEE THATS WHY THOSE PEOPLE ARE SO SADDD
mosiefool 1 year ago
to analbyaccident: oh yeh.....unfiltered cigarettes & bacon....what a high.....better than any illegal drug. Bacon over-dose....thats the way to die
inkey2 2 years ago
Yeah but everything gives you cancer. Pick your poison.
reymatt76 2 years ago
I think red meat and bacon are far more disgusting than cigarettes. And I don't even smoke.
reymatt76 2 years ago
mmm, bacon!
cheomire 2 years ago 2
What is going on with people nowadays? back in my times people smoked a lot but you never heard that someone died from cancer, actually, they lived more time than today.
rodalbbutgar321 2 years ago
haha! do they still make these? or are they just L&M's now? cos they seem like fine fine cigarettes!
joelandrews91 2 years ago 2
they still make them, although they are difficult to get.
rodalbbutgar321 2 years ago 2
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Fuck you Chesterfield!
kxmode 2 years ago
Amazing, this was 61 years ago!!! The attitude towards smoking has sure changed since then.
For those of you making comments about how these people would have died by now from cancer, even if they had not smoked they would all be dead by now anyway.
Most people in this video would be around 100 years of age if they were still alive, which is doubtful.
osallent 2 years ago
SIGN ME THE HELL UP!!
Diskoboy1974 2 years ago 5
I'll have a Durward Kirby burger...bloody.
ignatz10968 2 years ago
Ding dong!
am4you1 2 years ago
Smoke ciggs as a profession?? How much did they pay them?
emmtampa 2 years ago
.....fowund no unpleznt aftuh tayuhst.....coz dey wuz all ded - n' - dyuh fo - dyey di'int tayhust nuttin no mo'.
MENCADO 3 years ago
The Chesterfield pitchman didn't smoke!
You can tell by the way he doesn't inhale and by the way he blows the smoke out.
murielsartre 3 years ago
bet that whole panna died early
joealanouf 3 years ago
What the fuck could they possibly be contemplating and writing about?
emmtampa 3 years ago
They'd be writing about the harshness and taste of the cigarette.
hardrockerdave94 3 years ago
Outstanding video!
sebringdnf 3 years ago 3
Jeez...that "panel" looks like an episode of Mad Men.
Mumblix 3 years ago
money goes to the head of the lucky,cancer goes to the followers
LOUKELL 3 years ago
"...thousands and thousands" lol
frizspin175 3 years ago
man i tell ya...it's hard to beat those chesterfields...if you can find them fresh.
virginia leaf tobacco, molasses dippeds..mmm mmm! but like i said, finding fresh ones...
mfnheff 3 years ago
to mfnheff: as to your comment 5 months ago about finding fresh Chesterfields> You can re-hydrate tobacco real easy. Open the pack and see how dry they are. If real dry: place the pack opened in a small sealable jar or plastic bowl. Then take a small wad of paper towel...the size of a quarter and wet it. Place it in the container with the open pack, seal the container tight....by the next day you should have some nice fresh cigs. This is the same thing they do to fine cigars that have dried out
inkey2 2 years ago
Great job.
SlaveStorm 3 years ago
I want that job
Blitzkill 3 years ago
Starts with NBC Logo, ends with Columbia Broadcasting (CBS) ID. Im certain Como was on NBC, but maybe that wasnt until the 50s? May thanks for posting this. Kindest regards.
Superskunk1954 3 years ago
dude this is awesome. crazy good find.
Embersomes 3 years ago
wow
13zedna12 3 years ago
hahahahahahaha bunch of retards! You have to be beyond retarded to take this commercial seriously!
mariaRV2 3 years ago
smoking 1000s and 1000s???? LMAO
rad4life1 3 years ago
I bet they all have lung cancer or have had 2 heart attacks by now........
bluesguitar10 3 years ago
Or they've been dead for thirty years+
squeeblee 3 years ago
yeah for real they'ed be like 90 now
iNick500 3 years ago
Damn no unpleasent aftertaste.... i wonder if any of those panelist got lung cancer now that would be ironic
STEFAZON500 3 years ago
Where can I find a job where I just hang out all day drinking vodka?
emmtampa 3 years ago 8
I thought that ABC stood for Always Buy Chesterfields????
emmtampa 3 years ago
It does. Look at the old Ronald Reagan ads--they said "always buy Chesterfields."
jmowreader 2 years ago
Do professional smokers get health benefits -- like free hospital stays, or free oxygen tanks for when they get cancer?
chrisman737 3 years ago 3
wow...what a cool job and you get free smokes !
midway27272727 3 years ago 4
Hell, Spike Jones was a five pack a day man.
He used to smoke while eating cheeseburgers. Once he hit the million cig mark he died.
txmcxlx 3 years ago
I know a lot of people that would qualify as professional smokers!
toob247 3 years ago
WTF they are drinking "milk" while smoking?
inkey2 3 years ago
Seriously, milk and cigs is a nasty combo...
Alembic40 2 years ago
WOW Bill O'Reilly and Chesterfields get their facts from the same place
roybatty68 3 years ago 4
I don't think young people realize how BIG a part of life "smoking" was years ago. It was a very social habit. When I would visit my grand parents circa 1960....all the relitives would be over....the smoke in the house was so thick it was like walking through fog. If you didn't smoke people thought you were an "odd duck" people smoked EVERYWHERE...hospitals, DRs offices, at work, at home, in restaurants....some colleges allowed it in class.
inkey2 3 years ago 3
You forgot the Cigarette Smoking parties. These days we have cocktail parties, where the entertainment revolves around conversation and having mixed drinks. In the days of this commercial, people would have cigarette parties--they'd put out bowls of cigarettes for their friends.
jmowreader 2 years ago
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inkey2 3 years ago 3
Cigarettes or not, this is a great piece of television history, and I thank you for adding it. It is a great glimpse into how people lived, and thought, back in the day.
Teflon65 3 years ago 7
Funny how every old tobacco ad on YouTube has legions of rabid anti-smokers screaming bloody murder and making snide remarks. Not content with tobacco advertising being all but nonexistent in the modern world, they whine about television ads that haven't aired in 60 years and think they're being clever when they point out that most of the smokers in the commercial (judging by their ages most born in the 1910s) are now dead. Yeah, no shit.
NyBob85 3 years ago 4
Just for the record, the man seen puffing away and sniffing the pack (Durward Kirby) lived to the age of 88, passing away in 2000.
byrd56 3 years ago 3
the 50's look awesome.
howcome people dont sing or talk in that inflection anymore?
kelseyisherex 3 years ago 5
Oh I know! I guess that the standard broadcasting inflection changed. But it was so much better back then: expressive, melodious...
Dangitalltoheck 3 years ago 2
AT the time, NBC carried "CHESTERFIELD SUPPER CLUB" on radio five nights a week [7-7:15pm(et)], 'tee', and also on TV from this broadcast until 1950. This initial TV edition, seen at 11pm(et), was actually the "West Coast" version of the radio show, as a "repeat broadcast" was necessary for West Coast listeners to hear it at a more convenient time [8pm, Pacific Time]. After three weeks, however, the 7pm Friday edition was simulcast for the rest of the season.
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
"smoking thousands and thousands of cigarettes" damn... (-_-)' dats not too healthy...
uckerf123 3 years ago
they have since quit their profession and have become professional bloody phlegm spewers. the pay and the hours are a little better.
peetie25 3 years ago
its true not unpleasant aftertaste
rawgarlic24 3 years ago
if i can knock 20 years of of this already pointless life then great! who the fuck wants to be 80 when most people are already dead just walking around aimlessly day to day waiting to be buried.
Boshanks 3 years ago
No unpleasent aftertaste eh? How could you taste anything after smoking "thousands and thousands" or cigs? What about unpleasent aftersmell (AKA stale smoke). Oh thats right, after thousands and thousands of cigs you can't smell anything can you?
CatalinaSafari73 3 years ago 4
I'd love to know what happened to all the "expert smokers." There have to have been a lot of lost lungs, cancers of the lips, mouths and throats, tracheostomies and other kinds of suffering leading to slow deaths for many of them. On top of it they probably felt guilty for having smoked and brought it on themselves. Personal choice, apparently. Heartbreaking that we as a society swallowed the manipulation and made the biggest drug dealers of all rich while we paid with our lives and our health.
Joan4884 3 years ago
Sure, it's "propaganda", as someone described it. But everyone engages in propaganda for their own ends, including your most recent hero, B. Hussein Obama. No one stuck a gun to anyone's temple and forced them to smoke.By the way, this must have come from two separate telecasts, because (and I am speaking you who are oblivious because of your drug usage and attendance at modern-day schools) the clip opens with the NBC television logo, and closes with the CBS logo.
DrexelGal 3 years ago
thats a funny spot. " smokin thousands and thousands..."
in the past i prefered chesterfield,too. but today they are not the same anymore at least here in germany. now they are low-price cigs and taste so cheap. now i smoke "laramies".
bartsimpsoninthesky 3 years ago
And now they're all dead. What a bunch of dumb-asses...
Thirdgen83 3 years ago
I bet there are at least a couple of dumb asses who were middle aged 60 years ago who didn't smoke... and are still dead!
JapaneseBugFights 3 years ago
What a pleasure to see this! 1948 telecast with Perry Como! When the woman sits down in front of Perry...you want to say: "Miss...would you mind removing your hat?"
33Mark221 3 years ago
Nice piece of history, thanks for posting
saphopoem 3 years ago
it's true, chesterfields are the best:D thanks 4 posting
fryskhanne 3 years ago
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ThisCanadian 3 years ago
Go ahead an smoke in your own house and in your own car with the windows rolled up. Suck it in deep.
People on ventilators pay my bills...
trainjustleft 3 years ago
Given free tobacco to stay calm and alcohol to be brave, American kids made fine soldiers. Smokin and drinking aside, that was a damn fine generation of Americans. Don't know how Hitler felt about it but American tobacco was highly prized by German troops too.
kidcharlamaign 3 years ago
LIVE YOUR FUCKIN LIFE
smoke if u want to and dont smoke if u dont want to but Dont! complain about smokers and ruin the thing that they enjoy
lukeydev 3 years ago 5
Screw em. They cost us billions in health care yearly. Not many people get to see the friggin grizzy end most smokers meet due to the habit.
Herr2Cents 3 years ago 2
hitler also said tobbaco is the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man,
kevt31 3 years ago
Omagod! It's Perry Como and Kurwood Derby. . .I mean Durwood Kirby!
jsb1750 4 years ago
My grandfather was a "professional smoker". He was paid to stand around schoolyards and look cool while smoking Camels.
We all know that anyone associated with the tobacco industry is evil, from the growers to the guy who hands you the pack in 7-11. Also, they're all child pornographers and all supported Hitler during World War II.
ericinwisconsin 4 years ago
Hitler was strict anti smoker he banned smoking in public places. The really facsists are people who try and stop people using a lawfull product.
kevt31 3 years ago 3
So it isn't fascist for cannabis to be illegal because it's been that way for nearly 100 years? Is that what your saying, remember drugs were all once legal products too until fascists decided we shouldn't have access to them and if they had their way alcohol would still be illegal too. Make your own choices in life, don't let anyone else make your decisions for you, if you want to drink, smoke or use drugs, that's your business, as long as you hurt no one else it should be your choice.
sgamble5688 3 years ago
"kevt31: Hitler was strict anti smoker he banned smoking in public places. The really facsists are people who try and stop people using a lawfull product."
Fascist don't smoke tobacco, fascist smoke YOU. xDD
SnakeInLake 3 years ago
i am going to smoke 1000 cigs a day from now on. of course, on non filters
waffen2 4 years ago 3