Cigar advertising

[Demeter]

Simply gratuitous...








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[Demeter]

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[Krist]

we need more advertising like this! bring back the cadbury fake I say

[PeeJay]

we need more advertising like this! bring back the cadbury fake I say

You mean the Galaxy Ripple?

[Krist]

You mean the Galaxy Ripple?

I don't know, what's the flake? The lady bugs bunny or something? There was definitely a sexy Cadburys advert.

[Emaresee]

Flake advert was always a bath over running or some such sensual disaster as the flake was slipped into some lipstick heavy pouty lips!

[Paulie2876]

Great post, I used to buy an occasional Robert Burns from Herbert Love in Glasgow first time I smoked cigars. A very nice smoke for ?3

[Demeter]

"Flake advert was always a bath over running or some such sensual disaster as the flake was slipped into some lipstick heavy pouty lips!"

Most of my work in this area is on the sexualisation of the subject matter or the 'vehicle' that is placed to deliver an objectified suggestion. The materials that I use I wouldn't post here because they are so overtly sexualised, admittedly the majority of those images are related to cigarettes and not cigars.

However cigar adverts have ventured into the 'dumb' argument

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These are milder examples of cigar related 'flake - verts'

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Cigars have become synonymous with class, elegance and style however there remains a subliminal hit within each of the following images. It could be argued that these appeal to a more refined and cultured mind...and the imagery that classical sexual objectification brings; conjecture is a wonderful form of devils advocacy


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[El Catador]

Great work on this thread..!

Some fascinating (if politically incorrect) historical advertising.

(Pity TJ isn't around to comment, this one would be right up his street.)

[Demeter]

There have been examples where there has been a clear and unambiguous effort to try to tie the sexualisation of the model into the iconography of the cigar...which, in my humble mind...has failed.

Can you spot the cigar in these pictures?

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Just doesn't work...there is little association subliminally with the object and the vehicle...cigars just don't carry such 'erotica for dummies' too well unlike cigarettes.

So, we can look to intellectualise the cigar again by offering notable women in conjunction with the cigar. The two are clearly distinguishable and 'blend' more sympathetically.

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Where there is a mystique to be created around what is perceived within cigar use - we can use movies (don't get me started on this)

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We can always revert to type and enjoy the classical...

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Many of the new marketing strategies are working the dark colours (Noir-ism I call it) where we are using light and shade to cultivate exclusivity and to simplify what is a beautiful article in itself...

Take your pick of the previous sentence for this...

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Res ipsa Loquitur as we say in the trade...