Vintage 60's TV Commercials - Salem Cigarettes

[BALKANCHERO]

How many people Salem have they killed just with this commercial???

[inkey2]

@BALKANCHERO yeah, but they all died with "air sofened taste" so I'll bet it was worth it

[BALKANCHERO]

@BALKANCHERO "air softened taste"? Hmm, they should start making food with that!!!

[In2Peacefulness]

She's so beautiful, I'd suck her smokers tongue and lick up her tar and nicotine lung butter any day. I bet it's smooth, and air softend and taste wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

[MegaKid11]

freshes ur taste...my ass kwasia

[wesmeis]

"coughs"

[dreddythedragon]

The like bar sort of looks like a cigarette

[spib65]

somehow, I'm not convinced, better off supping on petrol

[stefonamus]

Salem's freshness softens your duck...

[bunnyman09]

Yeah, because smoking a cigarette makes you smell so damned good.

[Januacaeli]

Commercials could even sell L.S.D. or cocaine if they want.

[six80ususus]

Just because someone is dressed like he has his act together does meen anything LOL!!

[six80ususus]

At least today people are not expected to be clone copies of each other. Yes there are many things in todays society that are bad but I appreciat the fact that people are allowed to have indepenant thought even if the gorvernment still tries to control it people are less likely to hide their true feelings.

[six80ususus]

Things change people. Im sure people in their twenties in 1960 were looked at exactly the same way by older people as older people look at 20 year olds today. Its all relative!!!!

[inkey2]

@six80ususus you are correct.....teens in the 1960s were considered revolting looking by their parents. For those of you who were not alive to witness the Beatles changing everything in 1964........as very tame as they looked by todays standards were considered "the ruin of society" by adults. And if you take a look at what they looked like in 1964....neat combed clean (but longer than was accepted) hair, perfectly tailored expensive clothes &very polite for the most part

[5891jonathan]

Cough! Cough! Hack-hack-hack! Rrrrettch!  Cough!

[Ifthisissin]

Ya know ya getting old when ya can remember this!!

[halofourten]

i havent see a cigarrete comercial in a lot of time...

[mroracal]

sorry but winstons cough cough cough damn blood excuse me. taste good like a cigarette should.

[TruegrassBoy]

These actors both died of lung cancer!

[urkillingmeslowly69]

wow now i want a smoke up n i dont smoke.. ;P

[edching908]

how can cigarette smoke associate with softness? It simply doesn't jive.

[Kristoliquid]

Gives you fresh air with every puff...

[ACarbonBasedLifeForm]

The beginning kinda reminds me of an OLD PORNO flick

[InfiniteMushroom]

I remember when women used to look like the honey in this video!

She has her makeup on, nice hair, nice dress, and shoes. No goddamn flip flops and I'll bet her tongue isn't pierced!

The guy she's with is dressed like he's got his act together. He doesn't have that Fresh-Out-Of-Prison look that women prize today.

Women today are just disgusting.

[Sheri451]

@InfiniteMushroom You are SOOOOOOO right. women now look like skanks, with their pierced tongues, lips, eyebrows, cooches, and all the ugly tatoos. They look like a street walker. But this commercial was made before women became liberated, which means some LEZ wanted to be treated like a man. Guess what women can now go to the middle east and get killed just like a man! I would have liked to have lived then.

[Hunnie028]

@InfiniteMushroom Not a sexist commercial at all. Pig.

[InfiniteMushroom]

@Hunnie028 Thanks for telling me that you're fat. You must be the very same kind of bitter slovenly flip-flop-wearing woman that plagues my eyes, daily. Who actually drags out that tired "sexist" sneer except a broad like you. Go put on some makeup.

[Hunnie028]

@InfiniteMushroom And you know I'm fat...how? I am actually of average height and weight. And I am also a professional woman, a registered nurse. I am quite intelligent & capable of being a productive member of society...unlike yourself, who is quite insecure in his masculinity, apparently. Oh...are those words too big for your simple little mind to take in??

[InfiniteMushroom]

@Hunnie028 Who pulled on whose chain first? It is not a mark of intelligence to be well-adjusted to a dysfunctional society. I don't smoke but I prefer the world of this lovely couple, with their Salem cigarettes, to yours.

There is no winning an argument with a woman ruled by a hostile feminist vocabulary. Nevertheless, you have learned your trite derisions well, young Ms. Skywalker.

You have final say. NOW...let your Inner Shrew come forth and SMITE the Male Chauvinist Pig! HA-HA-HA!

[Hunnie028]

@InfiniteMushroom Good comeback, quoting Star Wars? I would have responded right away, but I was laughing too damn hard...

[xXxSHOOPIExXx]

@InfiniteMushroom Our generation was tought by the best.(Hint: past generations)

[MrBombid]

@InfiniteMushroom

your a fucking idiot, "oohh i dont like todays clothing people wear" you sound like a fucking 200 year old.

[InfiniteMushroom]

@MrBombid You are proof that mankind is regressing back into barbarism with incredible speed. The Morlock gene is already showing by your comment. Read H.G. Wells book, "The Time Machine," and you'll see your descendants.

[lukekelly96]

@InfiniteMushroom yea asshole

[TheNomad1970]

@InfiniteMushroom What? tongue piercings feel great!.

dressed like he has his act together? that is so funny.

[HUFFY15067]

@InfiniteMushroom lmao fresh out of prison that is comical but unfortunatly true

[inkey2]

@InfiniteMushroom yeah, this is back when adults actually dressed like adults. None of this backwards baseball hat and shorts that come to your calves, They all look like "spanky" on the old "Our Gang" (the little rascals) series. I just can't believe how retarded grown adults look these days

[collisioncat99]

ACcountryFan...I agree...

Unfortunately most of these people take themselves a-waaay too seriously.

[Palakea]

you left your right lung on the rope swing

[InfiniteMushroom]

Commercials like this not only sell the product but, they sell our ideas of the good life back to us. The people are attractive, music is pretty, and the announcer friendly, clear spoken, and trustworthy. This scene sells the product as part of that world and claims we can buy into it via the product.

People enjoy these old commercials because they can go back in time and relive scenes of the good life in the Old American Republic. A time before The Empire and Viagra ads on prime-time TV.

[GreatLash75]

I totally agree...... where's Don Draper and Peggy Olsen when we need them!

[gillman47]

i'd still walk a mile for a camel

[tamroyt]

After a hard day I like nothing more than to retire to my study with the day`s paper, my favorite slippers and loose myself in the wonderfully fresh favor of an oral cancer and a chest clutching infarction.

[ACcountryFan]

why is it people want to put a damper on nostalgia/old commercials with modern-day reactions? commercials like this that appear throughout You Tube I assume were uploaded for enjoyment from those who either were around back then or those who are into nostalgia and like watching things from the past. the nostalgia vibe is somehwhat lost when modern-day feelings and attitudes are attributed to an earlier time.

[xV3NG3ANC3]

My cats name is Salem...

[leoseaver]

4 out of 5 tumors prefer the tar in Salem.

[GilbertsonDerick]

Men who smoke Salem's are great thinkers.

[borri317]

i like smoking

[basicboi23]

Freshens your taste; makes you smell like shit

[seamusdog420]

mmmmm the wonderful wonderful world of heart attacks

[ACcountryFan]

could you all just stop putting a modern-day spin on things and enjoy the commercial...GEEZE!!

[seamusdog420]

I had 3 consecutive heart attacks it crippled me for life. I quit.I think that gives me the right to poke fun at tobacco commercials helped to hook me as a CHILD on for the next 30 years.They used to give them to us when we were minors at events for "promotion" Drug dealers use that same tactic all the time, give you a tease them hook you through the bag. Youtube is ppl exercising freedom of speech.You can't police ppl here so stop trying to put a nazi spin on everything ...GEEZE..really.

[ACcountryFan]

the irony here is tobacco commercials as you call them should never have "helped" to hook you on cigarettes. perhaps it's just me but when I watch modern-day commercials, not about cigarettes since there aren't any, but when I watch football on Sunday they do advertise beer...the baseball games I watch are sponsored, in whole or in part, by alcoholic products but that doesn't make me want to run out and purchase Budweiser products just because of commercials!?

[ACcountryFan]

there are some very funny commercials for Bud-Lite that air on the radio and on television often...and I like the commercials...but I don't buy what they're selling because I know it's harmful to your body...the same with cigarettes. You have all of these anti-smoker people commenting about how bad and evil it is to smoke instead of commenting on the commercial itself, not the product being sold. I'm a heart patient...I don't smoke or drink...but I don't advocate banning their commercials.

[seamusdog420]

You gloss over one very obvious thing I and others were CHILDREN without a true sense of long term consequence yet. I agree with on one point , I like you, am not persueded by advertising as an adult, but as a child i however i was quite seceptiable to what was adverted on tv, tell me as a kid that you never saw a toy on tv that you did not want and get as a result of seeing the advert. Even if it was something you found out about from other kids it no doubt initially was adverstised.

[sumerates]

salem gives u fresh air and cancer :F

[joltinjack]

Brings back memories of my childhood (1960's)...STANDING in the middle of our car's back seat while both parents were smoking away in the front bench seat. No one wearing seat belts. My Dad had a beer between his legs while tooling down the 2-lane road at 70 mph.

[InfiniteMushroom]

Yep, I remember too. Commercials like this not only sell the product but, they sold our ideas of the good life back to us. The people were attractive, music was pretty, and the announcer friendly, clear spoken, and trustworthy. This scene sells the product as part of that world and reassures us about buying into that world. Contrast that to the anomic hip-hop hell we are offered on TV. I'd rather be back in the early 60's with Dad, his Winston's, and our Rambler station wagon with no seat belts!

[NcicHit]

Winston taste good, like a cigarette should.

[yyz4life]

WOW, im Canadian :P

and ive never seen a ciggarette commercial before :P

[bearcreme]

I think I saw Betty Drapper (Mad Men) smoke Salem.

[littlequeen64]

minty taste while yer killing yourself......nice.

[ladylike1980]

Well, you know those two enjoyed an early tragic, painful death thanks to Salem's soft, fresh cigerettes. Wonderful!

This commericial is scary.

[immutabledude]

Ah, there's fresh air in those cigarettes! I would have never known....

[ginger0607]

That is awesome.

[bentoutta]

I'd comment but I'm going out for some fresh air and a smoke.

[InfiniteMushroom]

It's not about the product. It's about witnessing a beautiful scene with beautiful people (in an America that sadly no longer exists) and Salem cigs will help you share in that illusion. If cigarette advertising were permitted again, we would see visions of a hellish Logan's Run dystopic America in which Salem cigs help you enjoy your last fleeting minutes before black-uniformed police catch and tazer you for insurrection against the New World Order. "Salem softens your tazer pains"

[Shanex36]

classic! i love salem

[whoowndachiefs]

How did she manage to swing on that rope without burning herself with the cigarette ashes, or dropping the darned cigarette and starting a forest fire? Someone wanna tell me? (LOL)

[mellotrongirl]

Salem softness...as opposed to Pall Mall harshness...?!??

[gkmaster25]

Theres a wonderful world of cancer! I ask myself, How many people that watched this commercial back then have died of lung, throat or any other type of cancer these coffin nails give out!

[kenmalkin]

I would agree with you gkmaster25. However, as they say, "let the buyer beware!" Honestly, and think about this, how could inhaling smoke directly into your lungs from burning weeds do anyone any good? A monkey could figure that out, think about it. What was not figured out I suppose back then was the harm one was doing to their body, when inhaling the stuff-

[gkmaster25]

AMEN! Knowledge is power!!

[CabbyProductions]

the people in the commercial were like 16 jeez!

[ValorOrgulloso]

when they say "breathe in fresh air with every puff!" what they mean to say "breathe in years of lung problems and potential cancer when you use our fags!"

[Thehappinessparadox]

What a wonderful world of madness! A wonderful world of Cancer! It's the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful world of Haviiiing Lung Canceeeer =)

[ryukenangel]

*twitch*

[PublicLondonChic]

Ahh wonderful!

[shvetes]

What a wonderful world of softness! A wonderful world of freshness! It's the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful world of Salem cigarettes!!

[kikyocrazy]

Wow.... freshens your taste? That's a first.

[wortsy10]

i loved this comercial

[insanityJ]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[dosmart]

man...i need a smoke...

[w0witsJAMIE]

HAHAHA.

[boyan19]

they had cigarette commercial back then?! WEIRD!

[anormalmonth]

Of course! That was when everyone smoked, and no one knew it was bad for you.

[CabbyProductions]

well they knew it wasn't good for kids to smoke.

and look how young the people in the commercial are.

[visor109]

Could someone please define "Modern Filter"?

[jahovahut]

(homer) mmmmmmmmm.... softness.... (drool loudly)

[485f11]

Dose days ppl where not dumb then this days deaing from cancer taking to much cigarettes like crazy thats

why there are no commercials of cigarettes on tv.

[vidman13]

I pray to god your not a language teacher.

[solidsnake2085]

lol me either

[SgtRock57]

Nothing says fresh air and sunshine like smoking a Salem cancer stick..mmmm mmmm..HACK! COUGH !! nothing better..HACK! COUGH! COUGH!!

[Lizmarie1965]

We can advertise liquor on TV but not cigarettes..what's up with that...SAVE THE CIGARETTES!!

[Vegeta370]

makes me want to switch to Salems