Popular Cigarette Slogans of the 1950’s

by Avis Yarbrough


In the 1950’, slogans became a way for cigarette companies to distinguish themselves.

For example, Camel’s cigarettes had one a popular slogan “Not a Single Case of Throat Irritation Due to Smoking Camels.” This slogan came about due to a complaint by smokers that smoking made them cough. Here are some of the most popular cigarette slogans of the 1950’s.

One of the most popular brands during the 1950’s was Marlboro whose slogan read “The Filter does not get between you and the Flavor.’

A popular Lucky Cigarette Slogan reads, “Light up a Lucky, it’s time to light up.”

A popular Camel Slogan “For more pleasure have a Camel.”

One that a lot of people will remember “Taste Good like a Winston Should.”

“Your Voice of Wisdom says Smoke Kent.”

It would be the death of a famous actor’s career to do a cigarette ad now, but back in the 1950’s it was different.

Take for example an ad by Rock Hudson for Camel with the caption “Rock Hudson Agrees with Camel Smokers Everywhere.”

“New Phillip Morris Gentleman for Modern Taste.”

What was ironic, was that also in the 1950’s doctors started to notice a correlation between smokers and lung cancer and were publishing their reports. In 1954, such a report was published in Reader’s Digest.

Ten years later cigarette advertising was banned from television. The irony is a decade previously Phillip Morris placed an ad in a Medical Journal, which read, “Don’t smoke is hard advice for patience to swallow. May we suggest smoking Phillip Morris, instead.”


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