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Cigar Advertising In Europe Really Catches Your Attention

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Some cigars are rolled by hand... First, let me warn you that clicking on some of the links in this post will take you to view things that are definitely NSFW (not safe for work).

This part of the post is PG-rated, unless like many in our over-politically-correct time, you think that cigars and smoking are R or X-rated subjects by themselves. The European television advertisements shown on the next page, however, would never get on the air in the U.S.A. even if they weren’t advertising tobacco products.

More’s the pity.

They are quite funny and very well done. They are advertisements for Independence Cigars, and the link to their website is also safe. Independence cigars are short-fillers, and I’m not sure if they have a North American distributor. The company is owned by Arnold André, one of the leading German manufacturers of cigars and cigarillos that was founded in 1817, and they seem to have learned quite a bit about marketing in that time.

The NSFW ads are below the fold.

If you are legally old enough to smoke cigars, then you are legally old enough to view these videos unless you live in an area with some unusually strict or strange laws. Also, while NSFW, they are certainly not pornographic. They simply expose a bit more female flesh than you would see on American broadcast TV (and a bit less than you can see on cable).

The first ad is called “Hand Rolled.” Please do not click on the link to the video if you are offended by nudity. The ad, while adult by American standards, is quite funny and the nudity is definitely integral to the “plot of the commercial.”

The commercial was so well-received that the company followed it up with a sequel, also featuring a young lady is somewhat less clothing than you are likely to see even in U.S. Victoria Secrets commercials. It also is quite funny, and brings home the message that if someone offers you an Independence cigar, you had better say, “yes.”

I’m not certain if a third commercial in the series was made, or will be made in the future. Perhaps some of our European readers can let us know.

Posted on Friday, May 26th, 2006 at 6:24 pm.

3 Responses to “Cigar Advertising In Europe Really Catches Your Attention”

jcruz
May 30th, 2006 21:26
1

Sure wish we weren’t such prudes here in the US…I’d love to see commercials like this!
Cheryl
December 22nd, 2007 14:44
2

I was recently sent a third commercial. Two women rolling the cigar. If cigarenvy wants it, I could send it.
I also wish we had commercials like this in the US
Don Timoteo
January 19th, 2008 08:46
3

I too saw the 3rd Independence video commercial. Maybe the best of the 3. Two women rolling a cigar. Muy excellente. Chihuahua!!!