Kool cigarette commercial

Lady Be Cool Kool cigarette commercial

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• Kool
• cigarette
• commercial
• ad
• Lady
• Be
• Cool

[xpat73]

Saw my dad die of lung cancer....it was not stylish I can tell you that.

[pmccarthy001]

@xpat73 Yes, my mother died of lung cancer. Agreed, lung cancer is a miserable way to die.

[laronmaron98]

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.

[pmccarthy001]

@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.

[kyori22]

who ever smokes will meet a grim fate

[pmccarthy001]

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...?

[ab348]

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.

[jldraw]

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.

[phalxor]

@laronmaron98 reminds me of the star trek episode where they outlawed violent thought...

[gillyssquashball]

@pmccarthy001 Yea but they had a lifetime of enjoying the refreshing cool taste of kool!

[chubyali]

hilariously stupid!

[Mikuruification]

@pmccarthy001

We drink Hennessy, We smoke KOOLS, WE'S NIGGAZ! WE'S LIKE TO FUCK UP SHIT!

[Treelinesmoker]

@laronmaron98 So true! It's so refreshing to see someone think logically!

[Treelinesmoker]

@xpat73 You anti-smokers never give up. Just shut it.

[m1up]

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.

[SuperSixinches]

I wonder what she looks like now

[vincent21212]

be Kool, bitch!