Daffy Duck and Porky Pig havin a fag!

Voltex

I was watching some cartoons with the kids and noticed that Daffy Duck and Porky Pig seemed to enjoy the odd fag!

Not sure what to make of it TBH!

My name is URL

I think it's great.. you can't beat the mildly politically incorrect cartoons of yesteryear

the scrote

it was the 50's

yore

I didn't click on the photo link just in case, but isn't being ghey socially acceptable now?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Cigarettes featured in a lot of old cartoons. You have to remember that in 50s 60s America nearly everybody smoked. The Tobacco industry was booming..

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

mikom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLnPM0BjaQ

Yabba-dabba-doo-bie

yore

I'm sure a lot of people must remember the boxes of "cigarettes" sweets that you could get as kids. I'm guessing you can't get them now. Never made me want to smoke (in fact I detest it). Political Correctness can do a lot of unnecessary stupid shite

Irish Guitarist

Smoking was seen as being healthy back then

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/07/21/dentistreccomendedL_620x414.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/smoking/smoking_01.jpg

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yore wrote: »

I'm sure a lot of people must remember the boxes of "cigarettes" sweets that you could get as kids. I'm guessing you can't get them now. Never made me want to smoke (in fact I detest it). Political Correctness can do a lot of unnecessary stupid shite

they were ****ing delicious

DEFTLEFTHAND

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Smoking was seen as being healthy back then

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/07/21/dentistreccomendedL_620x414.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/smoking/smoking_01.jpg

The Philip Morris company (Marlboro) released a paper in the 1950's in which they claimed to have medical proof that smoking improved respiratory function.

El_Dangeroso

yore wrote: »

I'm sure a lot of people must remember the boxes of "cigarettes" sweets that you could get as kids. I'm guessing you can't get them now. Never made me want to smoke (in fact I detest it). Political Correctness can do a lot of unnecessary stupid shite

Just because it didn't work on you didn't mean that it didn't work on others. Otherwise the companies would not have bothered. The greatest ruse perpetuated by corporations is that most people are too smart to fall for advertising. How else would we tolerate such an invasive level of advertising in society, especially when aimed at our children.

Ellis Dee

My name is URL wrote: »

I think it's great.. you can't beat the mildly politically incorrect cartoons of yesteryear

I agree. Here's one from 1934. It was banned, even though there was no daytime TV for kids in those days.:):)

yore

yore wrote: »

I'm sure a lot of people must remember the boxes of "cigarettes" sweets that you could get as kids. I'm guessing you can't get them now. Never made me want to smoke (in fact I detest it). Political Correctness can do a lot of unnecessary stupid shite

You can still get them, my kids recently bought some, but these days they're just candy sticks! They don't have the red bit on the end anymore.

MistyCheese

That poor man! :eek:

Although you shouldn't use the term "fag", it's offensive to buttpirates.

AlmightyCushion

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The Philip Morris company (Marlboro) released a paper in the 1950's in which they claimed to have medical proof that smoking improved respiratory function.

It helps you develop a deep, chesty, healthy cough which gets rid of all that nasty phlegm that builds up.

ejmaztec

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Cigarettes featured in a lot of old cartoons. You have to remember that in 50s 60s America nearly everybody smoked. The Tobacco industry was booming..

You quite often saw a character having the odd puff.

recylingbin

Thinly veiled anti-smoking, pro-pork, ambivalent to duck thread.

yore

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Just because it didn't work on you didn't mean that it didn't work on others. Otherwise the companies would not have bothered. The greatest ruse perpetuated by corporations is that most people are too smart to fall for advertising. How else would we tolerate such an invasive level of advertising in society, especially when aimed at our children.

I think we're talking about different things. I vehemently anti-smoking. but was just under the impression that those sweets were probably banned now (or as someone else said, available but not called cigarettes). I don't think the tobacco companies were making them.

And I don't think that any of my friends who smoked, started because of their love of those sweets or because of any "socially-acceptableness" of the habit. They did so because they thought they were being cool 14-year olds or thinking it made them rebellious or whatever.

I am in favour of banning advertisments/facny packaging. I'd probably actually ban real cigarettes if it were in my power and there was an effective way to do so. They're the one thing I would ban. But I wouldn't ban the sweets. What kind of cruel sick bastard bans a poor child's sweets!

yore

MistyCheese wrote: »

That poor man! :eek:

Although you shouldn't use the term "fag", it's offensive to buttpirates.

They didn't call the pig "Porky" for nothing. He'd pork anything so he would!

Chuck Stone

Political correctness?

Shirely public health?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Political correctness?

Shirely public health?

Yes I don't understand the PC angle. Is it true though to say that smoking has become taboo in certain sections of society. In the 40's, 50's and beyond lighting up was second nature.

Today though you can get funny reactions from people. I lit a cigarette at a family get together during the summer, and an aunt of mine said I thought a boy like you who has been to college would no better. If smoking is the only addiction I took away from my college days then I'm doing well.:pac:

3ndahalfof6

Are you saying they grabbed someone who was gay and smoked them?

yore

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

Are you saying they grabbed someone who was gay and smoked them?

Yeah, it was Orwell-esque subliminal propaganda against the homo communists

Capt'n Midnight

All they need to do is digitally edit the offending cartoons.
Or realise they were made for adults , not kids.

Postman Pat and Bob the Builder had to be paintbrushed before they could be shown in Japan in case anyone thought they were members of the Yakuza

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/720419.stm

El_Dangeroso

yore wrote: »

I think we're talking about different things. I vehemently anti-smoking. but was just under the impression that those sweets were probably banned now (or as someone else said, available but not called cigarettes). I don't think the tobacco companies were making them.

And I don't think that any of my friends who smoked, started because of their love of those sweets or because of any "socially-acceptableness" of the habit. They did so because they thought they were being cool 14-year olds or thinking it made them rebellious or whatever.

I am in favour of banning advertisments/facny packaging. I'd probably actually ban real cigarettes if it were in my power and there was an effective way to do so. They're the one thing I would ban. But I wouldn't ban the sweets. What kind of cruel sick bastard bans a poor child's sweets!

They used to carry cigarette company logos fadó fadó. You might think that your friends started smoking for varying other reasons, but trust me, the candy cigarettes had an influence on introducing children to smoking, perhaps a very small one but an influence nonetheless. It re-enforced the idea of cigarettes being an 'adult' activity, that was something that you emulated in order to seem mature, and provided a way for children to 'play act' smoking at a very young age.

This is backed by various studies examining the area:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070618091217.htm

El_Dangeroso

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

They used to carry cigarette company logos fadó fadó. You might think that your friends started smoking for varying other reasons, but trust me, the candy cigarettes had an influence on introducing children to smoking, perhaps a very small one but an influence nonetheless. It re-enforced the idea of cigarettes being an 'adult' activity, that was something that you emulated in order to seem mature, and provided a way for children to 'play act' smoking at a very young age.

This is backed by various studies examining the area:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070618091217.htm

I remember that we used to "smoke" them first, don't remember them having logos though.