In 1968 when I worked downtown Brooklyn I saw them filming this commercial. The women dressed in the old fashion clothes were marching down the street. Remember this like it was yesterday.
That's amazing!! I love how they got their footage of "the good old days" to playback at the same speed and quality you'd expect from early 20th century newsreels, I always thought it likely was from the actual early days of the fight for women's emancipation! But I do see that the signs tend to all be about various women's issues, including a sign that mentions cigarettes, Lol!
I smoked Virginia Slims for 15 years, but I quit cold turkey in 2011 when I nearly died from a pulmonary embolism. Now, watching these old cigarette commercials makes my chest hurt, but they are entertaining. Lol
I can’t get this jingle out of my head! So catchy! 🎵”You’ve come a long way baby, to get where you’ve gotten today. You’ve got your own cigarette now, baby. You’ve come a long long way.”🎵. I love it!
The models in the 1960s were so very beautiful! Amazing how this poison was packaged and sold. I smoked Virginia Slims from the ages of 14-15. I quit when my parents made it a regular joke that I smelled as if I hung out at a bar and grill.
@@cjturner40 its true that not all cancer is caused by smoking but without it, there would be a lot less cancer, lung cancer especially, probably a good 80-90% less
That might actually be a good thing. Smoking rates have actually dropped massively here in Australia over the years. More and more people are quitting smoking because they don’t wanna do further damage to their health. Compare the cigarette trend of the early years to the vaping days of today, where even young teenagers are using fake IDs or stuff to get their hands on a vape. Vaping has these attractive fruit flavours, but they very quickly turn into toxic chemicals when you inhale them. Ridiculous. They should be banned. So as one method of inhaling chemicals into your lungs ends, another one begins, for the next generation, and certainly not in a good way. At least our Australian Government is airing these quit vaping (Quitline) ads on TV, in the hope that they’ll stop the younger citizens of tomorrow from taking up the habit. Sad things are going this way, and I’m talking people who are choosing to vape now, because cigarettes are slowly declining.
These ads and the premiums that VS offered were so enticing. I smoked only VS in college and truth be told I loved smoking but quit when my bf said he hated it.
@@itsolivier Thanks and they were. At the time I was 11 years old and started sneaking cigarettes, I didn't know until the late 1990s that I was smoking cigarettes regularly since I was two years old in 1964. I have reel to reel tapes of me smoking cigarettes regularly at age three into four years old in 1965. They made me quit at age 10 but I got the same smoking withdrawal dreams repeatedly which made me start sneaking them over a year at age 11.
These are the Australian variants of the commercials. I’d have to assume that the TV ad at the end of this video was perhaps 1969-1971, the then-McMahon Government introducing the Government Health Warnings at the end of every cigarette ad aired on TV and radio from 1972 onwards, until they were officially banned on 31st August/1st September 1976. Also note that Colour TV didn’t even come to Australia until 1975.
Whaaaaat, really? That’s crazy. I had no idea, thanks for saying. Makes sense, I suppose, I’m in my 40s and never saw one (New) in my lifetime. Putting a number on it is pretty wild, tho.
I lol'd about the "at 34 years old, she was sent straight to her room" line. It is a shame that women had to go through all of that hassle to have some pleasure. Thanks to Edward Bernays for reducing the social stigma of women smoking. His influence is primary in the acceptance of women smoking cigarettes in public, and we all know how much beauty and art has manifested from that emancipation.
I smoked💨 Virginia slims at 15, The video & jingle was so cool. I wanted to look like that too. Thank goodness I quit couple years later when I realized it wasn’t so 😎”
At 15, one of my cousins became a carpenter. She's not the butch type, she has long hair and wears make-up off-duty, she is married with a child...but she certainly does not have long fingernails and her hands are large. Still a woman -- but the Virginia Slims ads completely ignored such women.
@@DellaStreet123 - It’s a big deal that Virginia slims ignored women like your cousin.Back then all commercials with women were always tall, thin, sexy, long nails and Slim hands. That’s how they sell their brand. So What!.
11vlyleven it’s an ad because it targets someone to buy it.. almost peer pressure. It’s either buy my product or don’t support women’s rights. Sad that woman had to fight for their rights.. same with anyone but white men.
Absolutely amazing ads. Brilliant but sadly fall under the heading of "evil genius" machinations. I especially love the perfection of the woman's voice over describing the cigarettes. Dear God. It almost makes me want to buy a Virginia Slim and I have never smoked!
These chicks were all hot smoking their Virginia Slims, but my favorite Virginia Slims girl was Veronica Hamel ("Hill Street Blues,'" Joyce Davenport).
With all the negative stuff about lung cancer set-aside this was such a great catchy jingle. Never forgot it and still love it today. My mother used to get a kick out of it whenever it played. She was about 33 and I was about 11 and I remember her, me, and my sister all making Christmas cookies and hearing this song come on the TV. Good memories and good times. It was when men actually sounded like men, and women sounded like women and without any appology from either sex back then, you can detect a distinct hint of an underlying sexual turn on in their voices as they sang it. Imagine that, people being allowed to sound like real people!
Brings back great childhood memories of my single independent mother raising (rearing) two children. Smoking her Virginia Slims while preparing tax returns as a woman accountant. Kind of rare for the 50's and 60's.
Appears to be the Australian version of the campaign. Similar to the US version, but the voiceovers are accented (to American ears) and the cigarettes were more standard sized.
These are the Australian versions of the commercials, with a TV original tacked on at the end. The TV ad is perhaps from 1971, the then-McMahon Government introducing Government Health Warnings for the end of all cigarette advertising on TV and radio in 1972, continuing until 31st August/1st September 1976, when smoking ads were banned on both platforms. Billboards, cinemas and magazines, and all remaining methods of cigarette advertising, continued until the end of 1990.
I remember looking at Virginia Slims ads as a young child in my mother's magazines and admiring how beautiful and sexy the women models were. The television commercials were a little bit before my time but the models they used were even lovelier and so beautiful and elegant as they posed and smoked.
@@jackwalker4744 thanks Debbie Downer! She posed, choose and enjoyed to smoke, knew it was unhealthy and passed away prematurely. We all have individual choices in life that we must make, and we must all take personal responsibility for these decisions. Everyone knew by then that cigarettes were unhealthy.
Hot classy elegant women that were proud of it. For all you PC a-holes live your life however you want, just allow others the same right. Stay in your own lane.
@@ReplyGuy22345 Tumor cells are formed and appear in the human body regularly. The task of our immunity is to find and destroy them in time. Therefore, even a person who has never smoked can get lung cancer; This means that he has poor antitumor immunity. And smoking is optional. I will say more - the cause of cancer is always not physiological, but psycho-emotional. When smoking, the psycho-emotional failure is transferred to the physiological local area of the lungs. One smoker will develop lung cancer and the other will not. Thus, there is no reason to believe that lung cancer arises from smoking.
I love old cigarette adverts. Yes; I do know how dangerous it is, but, from someone who grew up in a media family (everyone was involved in TV film pruction, advertising, etc), I found myself fascinated by the images, and styles. To show how (UN)glamorous smoking truly is, I'd take a spot like this, and after restoring the images, I'd have it play as it did back Iwhen (this is late 60s, I'm pretty sure. US cigarette ads stopped in 72), and just after the close-up of the model, I'd have it imstly cut to her today -however she is. As an aside, I don't mean to knock her, per se, shes just the spots eye candy, but, many people who watch I Love Lucy remember how after that series ended, and The Lucy Show came on, Lucy's voice began to get ...deeper. by the time she did Here's Lucy, she was very deep bass, and THAT 's what smoking did. It also ages you. Personally, I was a smoker, but, I've. Not had one I'm over 10years. I've only used ecigs, and they've saved me before I could have become a older model 'Lucy' 😉.s
@@34airflowYep, they do have an Australian accent. These are the Australian commercials 100%. The TV ad (B/W) variant is perhaps from 1971, as the Government Health Warnings kicked in from 1972, until the TV and radio ban for cigarette advertising from 31st August/1st September 1976. I am actually a proud Australian commenting here, though timing of this comment may be different if you’re in another country with a different timezone.
.I dont smoke but I will say both my parents smoked and lived into their late 70s.Also all my 9 aunties smoked and and all of them lived into their 80s and90s.All the people who I went to high school with in the 1970s and who smoked are all still alive .Except for a few killed in accidents and such.
You know what, cigarettes are horrible of course, I'm so glad I never got suckered into that nasty addiction, but I've gotta say, back then they had some great cig. commercials. The advertising folks that thought this stuff up were really creative, really on the ball. They had fine singers, musical arrangements, attractive people, humor, catchy jingles. I miss the cig. commercials from my youth, so long ago. They were amusing. It's nostalgic seeing these. Virginia Slims had a clever gimmick going by conflating smoking with women's lib., they got a lot of mileage out of that. Here's another one of my favorites: ua-cam.com/video/uKd_-r_OFFQ/v-deo.html
My grandma smoked virginia slims menthol all the time. I tried one not too long ago and i felt like complete shit. started getting aches and pains all over. i never had that happen with any other cigarette only virginia slims.
This whole thing about smoking cigarettes equaling women’s liberation was the ultimate con job the tobacco industry pulled on women who fooled them into thinking smoking cigarettes would make them more independent and equal to men, but the only thing it did was make women equally susceptible to lung cancer and other smoking related diseases caused by smoking.
I bought cigarettes from 1983 to 1988 frequently. I was 13 years old in 1983. I'm glad barely anyone smokes anymore becuase it such a [hard] habit to quit.
How odd: I certainly remember these adverts from when I was 12 or 13 years old, but the cold, cruel irony never struck me till decades later. And besides, the jingle was awfully catchy. But what did you expect from a 13-year-old boy?
@@34airflowAnd coincidentally I am a proud Australian commenting here. Such adverts lasted until 1976 for TV and radio, and until 1990 for cinemas, magazines and all remaining forms of cigarette (tobacco) advertising.
Thanks so much for getting these together... I used them for a presentation about “Women’s Lib.” BTW, I’m fascinated by your moniker- do you fancy yourself the Rev. Jones, or did you survive Guyana? I wonder how many people today know the roots of the phrase, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.”
You can tell a man wrote that commercial. Slimmer cigarette for a woman's slimmer hands. I've met women with pretty large hands. Maybe to do all the cooking and housework.
It’s not actually! The commercial started with a group of women singing “we don’t want to vote we don’t want to smoke” and then transitioned to a woman in a long dress to a more upbeat version of “you’ve come a long way baby”
They are not. I know because they had modified the song a little by then. They changed the original "you've got your own cigarette now, baby" to "you've got Virginia Slims now, baby"
They've come a long way, but not long enough to not be called 'baby' or be helped by making the right cigarette for their 'feminine hands'. Hysterical!
I love the script. Those were the good old days when a husband could give his wife a severe scolding and send her straight to her room for smoking on the sly in the cellar or the out-house, even though she was 34.
@@lazypops3117 What I find ridiculous about those ads is that, right after pointing out how women used to be oppressed in ways that are unthinkable in a modern society, it plunges right into sexism: From using the belittling "Baby" to address the female audience to toying with women's self esteem by showing women conforming to beauty standards pushed by men and telling them they need gendered cigarettes. I strongly feel that equal rights includes the right to make bad lifestyle choices, but cigarettes especially for women...meh.
I just love how insanely patronizing this is lol. But it does prove nothing has changed when corporations prey on these types of emotions to sell a product
They used to use heroin to detox alcoholics.(1890's. Good funny movie about that called "The Road to Wellville") It would still work pretty good for that as outside of the hazards of overdosing and the discomfort of quitting, opiates do even less damage to your body than cannabis. (well, ok, they cause constipation, but that goes away pretty quick when you stop.) Natural opioids are broken down very easily by the human body. Smoking anything is a little rough on your lungs. My ex's dad was a pharmacist and always felt it would be better to legalize mind-altering drugs so people could buy them cheaply and reliably from a pharmacy, rather than buying them from some street thug who you don't know what you're exactly getting when you buy from them. (You wind up with the street people of my hometown San Francisco has if you do it long enough, though, that's for sure)
Talk about drinking the kool aid. Marijuana is not the opposite of poison. A simple on line search will reveal all of the toxins in MJ. Conned by Big Dopa. Common sense: don’t force smoke in your longs.
Mason Nix.....back when we were given a choice....knew it was "Bad for you" but you could anyway......l did at 11 years old ,never over 10 a day. Was known as FREEDOOM..also your lifestyle......and how many you put, Most my relatives were inactive. Lousy diets. My mother puffed away at 3 packs a day.........ROCK ON TO CHOICE!!🤘🤘🤘
In 1968 when I worked downtown Brooklyn I saw them filming this commercial. The women dressed in the old fashion clothes were marching down the street. Remember this like it was yesterday.
That's amazing!! I love how they got their footage of "the good old days" to playback at the same speed and quality you'd expect from early 20th century newsreels, I always thought it likely was from the actual early days of the fight for women's emancipation! But I do see that the signs tend to all be about various women's issues, including a sign that mentions cigarettes, Lol!
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I smoked Virginia Slims for 15 years, but I quit cold turkey in 2011 when I nearly died from a pulmonary embolism. Now, watching these old cigarette commercials makes my chest hurt, but they are entertaining. Lol
Glad you're ok! and that you don't smoke anymore is prolly good, too. :")
Thank you! :)
We make Virginia Slims especially for women because dhey are biologically superior to men∴
@@TeenageMutantNeckTurtle i love women who smoke misty 120s
So glad you kicked the habit!!
I can’t get this jingle out of my head! So catchy! 🎵”You’ve come a long way baby, to get where you’ve gotten today. You’ve got your own cigarette now, baby. You’ve come a long long way.”🎵. I love it!
The models in the 1960s were so very beautiful! Amazing how this poison was packaged and sold. I smoked Virginia Slims from the ages of 14-15. I quit when my parents made it a regular joke that I smelled as if I hung out at a bar and grill.
That poison was delightful though...
virginia slims means equal rights for women. Equal lung cancer, equal COPD, equal heart disease. YOU''LL COUGH A LONG TIME BABY
Frank Nagy yes
Why don't you stay in your own lane?
Yea
But ain't it Funny how PEOPLE Get CANCER WHO HAVE NEVER EVEN SMOKED A CIGARETTE OR NOT EVEN SECOND HAND SMOKE!!!???!
It's the most disgusting habit. And one of the most difficult to break.
@@cjturner40 its true that not all cancer is caused by smoking but without it, there would be a lot less cancer, lung cancer especially, probably a good 80-90% less
I remember this song getting stuck in my head when i was 8-9 yrs old.
Man, we've come a long way since these commercials.
Ya think?
@@UnknownBalboaParkThese are essentially Australian commercials from the 1970s.
The Cigarette Ads of the 60/s were the BEST!
Virginia Slims didn't come out until 1968, almost the 70s.
i know man. Trump's bringing em back though
I always loved this commercial
I LOVE the song
Can't and won't stop singing it out loud
Love love! the late 1960s hair do's and make up so styles and glamours!!!🌼. Stephen.
All those women fought just to be able to smoke Virginia Slims and people don't even smoke anymore. What a shame.
That might actually be a good thing. Smoking rates have actually dropped massively here in Australia over the years. More and more people are quitting smoking because they don’t wanna do further damage to their health. Compare the cigarette trend of the early years to the vaping days of today, where even young teenagers are using fake IDs or stuff to get their hands on a vape. Vaping has these attractive fruit flavours, but they very quickly turn into toxic chemicals when you inhale them. Ridiculous. They should be banned.
So as one method of inhaling chemicals into your lungs ends, another one begins, for the next generation, and certainly not in a good way. At least our Australian Government is airing these quit vaping (Quitline) ads on TV, in the hope that they’ll stop the younger citizens of tomorrow from taking up the habit. Sad things are going this way, and I’m talking people who are choosing to vape now, because cigarettes are slowly declining.
I hear this jingle everytime I see an old lady gasping for breath on an oxygen tank!
"She's come a long long way."
These ads and the premiums that VS offered were so enticing. I smoked only VS in college and truth be told I loved smoking but quit when my bf said he hated it.
They were good and took my mom's in my preteen/teen days when she occasionally bought them.
I liked them, but mom tried a lot of brands.
I was seven in 1969 and smoked a lot of them whenever she bought them.
@@itsolivier Thanks and they were. At the time I was 11 years old and started sneaking cigarettes, I didn't know until the late 1990s that I was smoking cigarettes regularly since I was two years old in 1964.
I have reel to reel tapes of me smoking cigarettes regularly at age three into four years old in 1965. They made me quit at age 10 but I got the same smoking withdrawal dreams repeatedly which made me start sneaking them over a year at age 11.
Here's me at three years old.
m.ua-cam.com/video/FCi2WbcoxLQ/v-deo.html
@@monkeeman1966 enserio fumabas a esa edad?
Si, or yes. Cigarettes are good.
These are the Australian variants of the commercials. I’d have to assume that the TV ad at the end of this video was perhaps 1969-1971, the then-McMahon Government introducing the Government Health Warnings at the end of every cigarette ad aired on TV and radio from 1972 onwards, until they were officially banned on 31st August/1st September 1976. Also note that Colour TV didn’t even come to Australia until 1975.
You've got your own cigarette now, baby. You've come a long long way. (cough, cough, cough)
Today is the 50th anniversary of the last cigarette commercial ever in the United States. (Not counting e-cigarettes.)
Whaaaaat, really? That’s crazy. I had no idea, thanks for saying. Makes sense, I suppose, I’m in my 40s and never saw one (New) in my lifetime. Putting a number on it is pretty wild, tho.
@@jjonestowne, thanks for subscribing!
Everytime I see an old Woman with COPD and on Oxygen I think "you've come a long way Baby!"...
women and fashions were gorgeous and even though it's not politically correct, the women looked fabulous smoking..
yea, dont know what's happened to people over the years; people dress openly now like they're cleaning out their refrigerators or garages
Ha, looks like tobacco social engineering got you too. You're supposed to think they look great smoking.
I can still remember some of these Old commercials. Bad product, but Good message, “You come a long way Baby!”
This reminds me of Sharon Stone when she made Basic Instinct.
Still great cigarettes just too pricey now.
The tobacco was better back then my aunt who uses a breathing machine told me so
they won there rights to a breathing machine
I bet you her lung feels great!
I lol'd about the "at 34 years old, she was sent straight to her room" line. It is a shame that women had to go through all of that hassle to have some pleasure. Thanks to Edward Bernays for reducing the social stigma of women smoking. His influence is primary in the acceptance of women smoking cigarettes in public, and we all know how much beauty and art has manifested from that emancipation.
That's dark, dude...
Victory Sticks
How times have changed.
I smoked💨 Virginia slims at 15, The video & jingle was so cool. I wanted to look like that too. Thank goodness I quit couple years later when I realized it wasn’t so 😎”
At 15, one of my cousins became a carpenter. She's not the butch type, she has long hair and wears make-up off-duty, she is married with a child...but she certainly does not have long fingernails and her hands are large. Still a woman -- but the Virginia Slims ads completely ignored such women.
@@DellaStreet123 - It’s a big deal that Virginia slims ignored women like your cousin.Back then all commercials with women were always tall, thin, sexy, long nails and Slim hands. That’s how they sell their brand. So What!.
I'M SORRY BUT LONG, SLENDER PRETTY CIGARETTES ARE DEFINITELY THE RIGHT MOVE FOR WOMEN OF ALL AGES!!!!!!!!LOL
what a drag
I'm sold! Where do I get a pack!
Terrific ads; unfortunate product!
11vlyleven it’s an ad because it targets someone to buy it.. almost peer pressure. It’s either buy my product or don’t support women’s rights. Sad that woman had to fight for their rights.. same with anyone but white men.
Absolutely amazing ads. Brilliant but sadly fall under the heading of "evil genius" machinations.
I especially love the perfection of the woman's voice over describing the cigarettes. Dear God. It almost makes me want to buy a Virginia Slim and I have never smoked!
@@AppleBottomJ Please. Get off your leftist victim high horse. It's unbecoming and unintelligent.
Long and skinny. Just the way women like them. The right size for a purse, but too long for a pocket tee shirt. Gotta love it.
You've come a long way, Baby. The freedom to be a slave to the addiction of tobacco.
You've come a long way baby! From the kitchen to the cancer! Congratulations
These chicks were all hot smoking their Virginia Slims, but my favorite Virginia Slims girl was Veronica Hamel ("Hill Street Blues,'" Joyce Davenport).
"You've got your own caskets and headstones baby, you've come a long, long way."
😆
Everyone dies...
💔😢🙏
With all the negative stuff about lung cancer set-aside this was such a great catchy jingle. Never forgot it and still love it today. My mother used to get a kick out of it whenever it played. She was about 33 and I was about 11 and I remember her, me, and my sister all making Christmas cookies and hearing this song come on the TV. Good memories and good times. It was when men actually sounded like men, and women sounded like women and without any appology from either sex back then, you can detect a distinct hint of an underlying sexual turn on in their voices as they sang it. Imagine that, people being allowed to sound like real people!
Brings back great childhood memories of my single independent mother raising (rearing) two children. Smoking her Virginia Slims while preparing tax returns as a woman accountant. Kind of rare for the 50's and 60's.
my very first turn on
Appears to be the Australian version of the campaign. Similar to the US version, but the voiceovers are accented (to American ears) and the cigarettes were more standard sized.
These are the Australian versions of the commercials, with a TV original tacked on at the end. The TV ad is perhaps from 1971, the then-McMahon Government introducing Government Health Warnings for the end of all cigarette advertising on TV and radio in 1972, continuing until 31st August/1st September 1976, when smoking ads were banned on both platforms. Billboards, cinemas and magazines, and all remaining methods of cigarette advertising, continued until the end of 1990.
Lots of passive aggression in those ads lool. Being a woman back in those days must have sucked.
I remember looking at Virginia Slims ads as a young child in my mother's magazines and admiring how beautiful and sexy the women models were. The television commercials were a little bit before my time but the models they used were even lovelier and so beautiful and elegant as they posed and smoked.
Posed, smoked, and died prematurely.
@@jackwalker4744 thanks Debbie Downer!
She posed, choose and enjoyed to smoke, knew it was unhealthy and passed away prematurely. We all have individual choices in life that we must make, and we must all take personal responsibility for these decisions. Everyone knew by then that cigarettes were unhealthy.
Everyone is loved and valued
I wish there was a higher quality version of this jingle, it won't leave my damn head!
Virigia Slims killed my aunt.
Your aunt killed herself with Virgina Slims.
@@kawasakiwhiptwo5821 yes you are right
Your aunt killed herself don't blame Virginia slims
Mine too
@Barbie Barbie knows how to live!
"Tailored for the feminine hand" women cant hold cigarrettes apparently ajsgsjsh
Wonderful and sick - miss those days 🥲
Hot classy elegant women that were proud of it. For all you PC a-holes live your life however you want, just allow others the same right. Stay in your own lane.
MrSidney52 then don’t come crying to us when your dying of lung cancer and you can’t afford treatment
@@ReplyGuy22345 Tumor cells are formed and appear in the human body regularly. The task of our immunity is to find and destroy them in time. Therefore, even a person who has never smoked can get lung cancer; This means that he has poor antitumor immunity. And smoking is optional. I will say more - the cause of cancer is always not physiological, but psycho-emotional. When smoking, the psycho-emotional failure is transferred to the physiological local area of the lungs. One smoker will develop lung cancer and the other will not. Thus, there is no reason to believe that lung cancer arises from smoking.
This was specific targeting of women for cigarette smoking . Outrageous
duh lol
Back when People were allowed to be Adult...
God damned if this song isn't catchier than powerbait
Ah, for the good old days!
I love old cigarette adverts. Yes; I do know how dangerous it is, but, from someone who grew up in a media family (everyone was involved in TV film pruction, advertising, etc), I found myself fascinated by the images, and styles.
To show how (UN)glamorous smoking truly is, I'd take a spot like this, and after restoring the images, I'd have it play as it did back Iwhen (this is late 60s, I'm pretty sure. US cigarette ads stopped in 72), and just after the close-up of the model, I'd have it imstly cut to her today -however she is.
As an aside, I don't mean to knock her, per se, shes just the spots eye candy, but, many people who watch I Love Lucy remember how after that series ended, and The Lucy Show came on, Lucy's voice began to get ...deeper. by the time she did Here's Lucy, she was very deep bass, and THAT 's what smoking did. It also ages you.
Personally, I was a smoker, but, I've. Not had one I'm over 10years. I've only used ecigs, and they've saved me before I could have become a older model 'Lucy' 😉.s
in russia cigarrette commericals was on tv even in 1995
🤯😲🤯
Yes, it is.
In Brazil cigarette commercials were banned only in 2001.
I'm pretty sure that's Kate Mulgrew playing "Mrs. Cynthia Robinson" in the first clip.
The thumbnail shot is at 2:11
My first wife smoked these...she referred to them as "vagina slimes" lmao
I can tell this was shot on film because the cigarette pack image bounces up and down a little bit. Maybe a problem with the projector? Just sayin'.
this is an AUSTRALIAN commercial. these are shorter than the american virginia slims
Correct. Just listen to the voiceovers.
@@34airflowYep, they do have an Australian accent. These are the Australian commercials 100%. The TV ad (B/W) variant is perhaps from 1971, as the Government Health Warnings kicked in from 1972, until the TV and radio ban for cigarette advertising from 31st August/1st September 1976.
I am actually a proud Australian commenting here, though timing of this comment may be different if you’re in another country with a different timezone.
Women have the same right to lung cancer as men dammit!
.I dont smoke but I will say both my parents smoked and lived into their late 70s.Also all my 9 aunties smoked and and all of them lived into their 80s and90s.All the people who I went to high school with in the 1970s and who smoked are all still alive .Except for a few killed in accidents and such.
My aunt smoked with parental knowledge from 12. According to my mom she smoked ages before that. She reached her late 80s with excellent lungs.
You know what, cigarettes are horrible of course, I'm so glad I never got suckered into that nasty addiction, but I've gotta say, back then they had some great cig. commercials. The advertising folks that thought this stuff up were really creative, really on the ball. They had fine singers, musical arrangements, attractive people, humor, catchy jingles. I miss the cig. commercials from my youth, so long ago. They were amusing. It's nostalgic seeing these. Virginia Slims had a clever gimmick going by conflating smoking with women's lib., they got a lot of mileage out of that. Here's another one of my favorites: ua-cam.com/video/uKd_-r_OFFQ/v-deo.html
from the days of democracy. no smoking = no democracy.
You've come a long way baby, to get where you got to today, you've got your own carcinoma baby, and now it's time to pay!
My grandma smoked virginia slims menthol all the time. I tried one not too long ago and i felt like complete shit. started getting aches and pains all over. i never had that happen with any other cigarette only virginia slims.
I think that 2nd woman was Kate Nelligan! (Captain Janeway!)
It's an actress named Betty Bobbitt - these commercials are Australian.
you're twice wrong - Janeway was Kate Mulgrew, and this ain't her, anyway
Cigarettes are good for you.
they are not (BAD FOR You)
This whole thing about smoking cigarettes equaling women’s liberation was the ultimate con job the tobacco industry pulled on women who fooled them into thinking smoking cigarettes would make them more independent and equal to men, but the only thing it did was make women equally susceptible to lung cancer and other smoking related diseases caused by smoking.
Knew a girl in HS that smoked them. Way back in the early 80's when the smoking age was 16 years old. Most kids smoked back then. Nobody cared.
I bought cigarettes from 1983 to 1988 frequently. I was 13 years old in 1983. I'm glad barely anyone smokes anymore becuase it such a [hard] habit to quit.
Women smoking cigarettes. What progress.
How odd: I certainly remember these adverts from when I was 12 or 13 years old, but the cold, cruel irony never struck me till decades later. And besides, the jingle was awfully catchy. But what did you expect from a 13-year-old boy?
The model didnt know how to smoke :)
Giannina Lilian good call
Giannina Lilian...quite right, one was in her late 30's did not smoke...she tried one anyway....was not impressed......
Good quality weed heavey thick smoke from such a thin weed good rush.
Peggy Olson made it!!!
You've come a wrong wrong way
Excellent examples of brainwashing through advertising. Quaint by today's standards but revolutionary at the time.
Leave that prison and come to this prison, baby!
LOL!
God bless American Advertising: Making addiction to carcinogens and expression of liberation.
Laramie Ekstra-Tar Sigarettes:
I don/t know what/s in 'em∴
I djust know I kan/t stop smoking 'em∴
I get your point. But these were made in Australia for Australians.
God bless left-wing liberals for shaming women for not being progressive --
@@34airflowAnd coincidentally I am a proud Australian commenting here. Such adverts lasted until 1976 for TV and radio, and until 1990 for cinemas, magazines and all remaining forms of cigarette (tobacco) advertising.
Thanks so much for getting these together... I used them for a presentation about “Women’s Lib.” BTW, I’m fascinated by your moniker- do you fancy yourself the Rev. Jones, or did you survive Guyana? I wonder how many people today know the roots of the phrase, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.”
Flavor-Aid.
The good reverend Jones was too cheap to spring for Kool Aid.
Back when Men were Men.
And Women had their own cigarettes?!
We still do Virgina Slims suck on the real though. They are so thin I break those bastards flicking them. Camel blue all the way
Suffragettes unite! Flame on.
You can tell a man wrote that commercial. Slimmer cigarette for a woman's slimmer hands. I've met women with pretty large hands. Maybe to do all the cooking and housework.
Are any of these the commercial that aired just before midnight on January 1, 1971?
I don't know...good question. I'll try and find out.
It’s not actually! The commercial started with a group of women singing “we don’t want to vote we don’t want to smoke” and then transitioned to a woman in a long dress to a more upbeat version of “you’ve come a long way baby”
@@sammorrow758, thanks! Where can I find it?
@@emmarose4234 it got reuploaded to UA-cam on the channel @Timeline Machine and it’s titled “Last Cigarette Commercial”
They are not. I know because they had modified the song a little by then. They changed the original "you've got your own cigarette now, baby" to "you've got Virginia Slims now, baby"
great
They've come a long way, but not long enough to not be called 'baby' or be helped by making the right cigarette for their 'feminine hands'. Hysterical!
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The hip feminist of yesteryear - today they are divorced, childless, alone, angry and look terrible with COPD and their oxygen tanks
Watched my mother die of lung cancer and it ain't beautiful, Virginia. Oh no it isn't.
I love the script.
Those were the good old days when a husband could give his wife a severe scolding and send her straight to her room for smoking on the sly in the cellar or the out-house, even though she was 34.
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Is that CHER in the beautiful cigarette add
I dunno...🤷♂️
I loved that commercial back in the day. It was catchy and showed how women evolved, to be able to have the same rights as men.
yes, but it perverted a genuinely good thing to market profit for evil corps. that's just as interesting.
@@lazypops3117 What I find ridiculous about those ads is that, right after pointing out how women used to be oppressed in ways that are unthinkable in a modern society, it plunges right into sexism: From using the belittling "Baby" to address the female audience to toying with women's self esteem by showing women conforming to beauty standards pushed by men and telling them they need gendered cigarettes. I strongly feel that equal rights includes the right to make bad lifestyle choices, but cigarettes especially for women...meh.
I just love how insanely patronizing this is lol. But it does prove nothing has changed when corporations prey on these types of emotions to sell a product
Hermosa
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That last woman model looks particularly dopey, doesn't she?
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"You've come a long way baby! You'll cough like men and your Life will prematurely ebb awayyy..."...
If they still advertise alcohol which is just a poison they better have some fancy ads for cannabis. Considering it’s the exact opposite of poison.
EXACTLY! well spoke.
jjonestowne lol just realized your account name and picture. Fitting for all the damn Jones town commercials I’ve been seeing
They used to use heroin to detox alcoholics.(1890's. Good funny movie about that called "The Road to Wellville") It would still work pretty good for that as outside of the hazards of overdosing and the discomfort of quitting, opiates do even less damage to your body than cannabis. (well, ok, they cause constipation, but that goes away pretty quick when you stop.) Natural opioids are broken down very easily by the human body. Smoking anything is a little rough on your lungs. My ex's dad was a pharmacist and always felt it would be better to legalize mind-altering drugs so people could buy them cheaply and reliably from a pharmacy, rather than buying them from some street thug who you don't know what you're exactly getting when you buy from them. (You wind up with the street people of my hometown San Francisco has if you do it long enough, though, that's for sure)
@@paulaharrisbaca4851 I guess we cal all agree,canabis is the answer to virtually EVERYTHING........................
Talk about drinking the kool aid. Marijuana is not the opposite of poison. A simple on line search will reveal all of the toxins in MJ. Conned by Big Dopa. Common sense: don’t force smoke in your longs.
Do you feel empowered now you had a lung taken out ? Just like a man baby
Mom,ano po ang subjeck ngayon? Sorry to all.because I need a teacher.not mother in the world. I have a own motder.
before the age of political correctness.
Mason Nix yes because dying of lung cancer is so cool and anti PC
Mason Nix.....back when we were given a choice....knew it was "Bad for you" but you could anyway......l did at 11 years old ,never over 10 a day.
Was known as FREEDOOM..also your lifestyle......and how many you put, Most my relatives were inactive. Lousy diets. My mother puffed away at 3 packs a day.........ROCK ON TO CHOICE!!🤘🤘🤘
Must.. Have, virgjna slime., for independence
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