Dick Van Dyke Show cast for Kent Cigarettes (Cigarette Girl)

Man, that Laura Petrie sure is the jealous type?? Wonder what made her so insecure?? OK,so your husband worked in an office with a middle-aged, hard-up, man-hungry woman, no reason to be so up-tight about the cigarette girl!!?? Sheeesh, maybe you need a full-time job yourself to take your mind off all that insecurity?? I could see if your husband was played by Dick Van Ho, THEN you'd have something to worry about...

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Entertainment

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• Kent
• commercial
• Dick
• Van
• Dyke
• 60's
• Mary
• Tyler
• Moore

[givebeesachance]

DVD was a SMOKER?!?!? Wow, I had so much respect for the guy before seeing this. I guess he's just another hollywood phony.

[weenielongus]

Givebeesachance, this was a different era. Many people smoked back then, and this was before the surgeon general's warning was placed on cigarette packages. All the facts weren't out yet about the dangers of cigarette smoking, so if you had a hit TV show and your sponsor asked you to do a commercial showing you using their product, what could you do but help your sponsor?!? NOW that people know better, I'm sure it would be a lot different...

[Drivermatic]

Back in the day most people knew cigarettes were bad for you. In WWII the G.I's referred to them as "Coffin Nails". I recently read a Illinois Supreme Court ruling from 1914 where the Judge wrote in the finding that "smoking was bad for one health". That said I love a good smoke.......its my choice.  You get cancer when you smoke too much, one cigarette does not give you cancer. So go ahead and enjoy a Kent.

[Cml725]

What's interesting is they were more into Pall Malls, and Dick Van Dyke said they didn't like doing these commercials because it was like giving kids permission to smoke.

[cheeriosinabowl]

What a filthy habit ! It just stinks -- and the smell lingers.

Of course, cigarette commericals back in the 60's were no big deal, run of the mill, so to speak. Cigs were advertised everywhere. I am glad cig advertising has been banned,  but people continue to puff away. Their choice, of course.

[QYB555]

Of course, that mighty micro-nite filter made it just fine-and-dandy!

[3investigators]

@weenielongus All the dirty little facts about smoking were carefully hidden by the cig companies and only fully got out in the late 1980's - which is when very sick people started to sue. Doctors even used to prescribe cigarettes to pregnant women into the 1960's!

[StripedRainDrops]

@Lamonjello Thank you! FInally someone with some sense!

[StripedRainDrops]

@givebeesachance Smoking was the vogue thing to do at the time, and no one had any clue it was harmful. I don't know if you've ever actually seen a Hollywood movie from that time, but in every single on they're smoking. Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jane Russel, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, because they didn't know it was bad for you. Why don't you research a bit before calling someone a phony just because they smoke? Even now people who smoke aren't all phony's, geez guy.

[hebneh]

"THE cigarette that gives you filter, taste, and pleasure!"

And cancer.

[PeterFirthFan]

Yes, 3 packs a day.

[bjoh249]

Mary Tyler Moore smoked??