No wonder everyone was thinner back then.

Kids watched this stuff? I can see why they cracked down on advertising. Any idea if a particular brand was promoted on LITB?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wibHcZ4FNbU

SAD

BUT look are the DRUG ads on TV today ... a group of adult pretty boys & girls having fun with the narration "Ask your doctor if this garbage is right for you ! " I'd say things have gotten WORSE !

The ones where you might go blind but you will cure your toenail fungus?

Take 2

1962 Cigarette Ad Housewives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iNeqyCJvPw

On My Three Sons, 1960-up, the dad regularly smoked a pipe. There was some cigarette smoking depicted in the early years of TAGS. I don't see where TV commercials had an adverse impact that was significantly or potentially more harmful. Maybe the ads were less so, as in the cases here they were separate from the programs' characters.

Look at some of the comments posted for these videos. You have people who freely admit to smoking weed all day long, but the most innocuous tobacco advertising sends everyone into a tizzy. I'm a non-smoker so I don't really care about cigs or pot, and am not trying to take a political stand.

But it's important to remember that cigarette advertising used to be ever-present in many forms from billboards on down. Even well into the 1970s, you could flip over any random magazine and find the Marlboro Man on the back cover. It seems that the more the US governments at the Fed and State levels try to eliminate people's smoking of tobacco via taxes, printed warnings, and restricted advertising, the country's overall health continues to decline. Maybe people are just substituting weed and fatty foods for what their grandparents used to derive from tobacco. Ideally everyone would not feel a need for unhealthy products -- but until we live in an impossibly ideal world, probably all that's being accomplished is the number of people who work in industries that produce tobacco products will continue to diminish.

No wonder everyone was thinner back then.

Kids watched this stuff? I can see why they cracked down on advertising. Any idea if a particular brand was promoted on LITB?

I don't think there was any cigarette sponsor on LITB. Mostly dog food and typewriters.

BUT look are the DRUG ads on TV today ... a group of adult pretty boys & girls having fun with the narration "Ask your doctor if this garbage is right for you ! " I'd say things have gotten WORSE !
I agree. Much, much worse.

^ Right. Back in the day there were no drug or lawyer ads on TV. I think the lack of lawyer ads was due to their professional association rules.

Doctors still are true professionals--no ads for them. (Unfortunately, not the same for hospitals. They're constantly tooting their horns on local TV.)

^ Right. Back in the day there were no drug or lawyer ads on TV. I think the lack of lawyer ads was due to their professional association rules.

Doctors still are true professionals--no ads for them. (Unfortunately, not the same for hospitals. They're constantly tooting their horns on local TV.)
https://sociallyawkwardlaw.com/attorney-advertising-regulation/history-of-attorney-advertising/

"Until the late 1970s, most states prohibited lawyers from advertising. This wasn’t simply out of tradition or a gentleman’s agreement not to seek publicity – the rules of professional conduct out-and-out barred attorneys from engaging in virtually any form of commercial publicity."

Now they can have crazy billboards and other ad images.

https://sociallyawkwardlaw.com/attorney-advertising-regulation/history-of-attorney-advertising/

"Until the late 1970s, most states prohibited lawyers from advertising. This wasn’t simply out of tradition or a gentleman’s agreement not to seek publicity – the rules of professional conduct out-and-out barred attorneys from engaging in virtually any form of commercial publicity."

Now they can have crazy billboards and other ad images.

Interesting--too bad it changed. It used to be an honorable profession.