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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.

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Poison is poison regardless of who it's marketed to, but man do they make it look good,

Looks like there was a meteor shower going on. Were you guys struck by any of the fall out?

In 2024 they are working to turn the clock back and take women’s hard earned rights away.

from the days of democracy. no smoking = no democracy.

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.

Approximately 1944.

The thumbnail shot is at 2:11

Such an insulting ad campaign. I guess that goes for much of advertising.

😂😂😂 it said silent and i turned it up anyway 😂😂. 💨💨💨brain

So evil.

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!

LMAO but Is a feminine hand smelling awfully because of the cigarette? These commercials are absolutely asinine but the melody is catchy and I can see how women would fall for these. I am glad I quit cigarettes. F the nicotine advertisement industry.

You've come a long way baby to get lung cancer😏

Thanks for posting this - I am now finishing a CD compilation of Gene Rodemich records. I'm really glad he did this before he passed away in 1934.

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.

finally u can have your own cancer too :)))))

"You've got your own caskets and headstones baby, you've come a long, long way."

0:53 Jill St. John?

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.

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 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'.

I have to laugh. Severe scolding and no supper that night? Does that mean the man of the house cooked his own dinner? Or he made her cook his dinner and didn't allow her to eat any of it? Just sayin'.

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!

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.

Niceee!!!

This was right up my alley! Love this bizarre shit. And Beasties too

You've come long way, baby...you can abort your baby now, baby. You've come a long, long way. And your baby is gone forever, baby, but hopefully your conscience will lead you to repentance.

The Cigarette Ads of the 60/s were the BEST!

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

"You've come a long way baby!" 1960'S Ad for women's cigarettes... now in 2023 Rhianna can bring her baby on stage ! "You've come a long way Baby!" ua-cam.com/video/HjBo--1n8lI/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/vXUbkIkwn2y/v-deo.html

That was a pretty good idear!

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You've come a long way baby! From the kitchen to the cancer! Congratulations

I can still remember some of these Old commercials. Bad product, but Good message, “You come a long way Baby!”

"Vaginal Slimes. available in Regular and Menstrual.."

Wonder how many more women died by having their ‘own’ cigarettes? Unbelievable!

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.

I always loved this commercial

I'm sold! Where do I get a pack!

That was very nice like going back in time....

Excellent examples of brainwashing through advertising. Quaint by today's standards but revolutionary at the time.

Beautiful, thank you!

Good quality weed heavey thick smoke from such a thin weed good rush.

Wonderful and sick - miss those days 🥲

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.

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 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 😎”

She made it. She's got her own cigarette! An example to us all.