Whatever your views on smoking, didn`t they always have such colourful ads, and catchy tunes on the TV? This ad is from a Readers Digest magazine for May 1959.
As a teenager I used to smoke Piccadilly. On one occasion my packet contained three cigarettes with a slight bluish discolouration to the filter. I returned one to the manufacturers who responded by sending me an apology letter, plus 20 cigarettes in a nice silver effect cigarette case.
Naturally I shared the two remaining duds with my chums who also received the same response.
The three of us smoked Piccadilly for somewhile after so their gesture reaped payback. Then we heard about "Passing Clouds"....................
the consulaiot fag advert at the cinema was an epic.showed a forrest scene with a stream running through it,with a catch phrase of cool as a moutain stream.
Funny you should mention the Consulate ad Brian, that was my all time favourite, with that soft mellow saxaphone playing. SID, do you think they`d still do that today mate?
