Cigar Advertising In Europe Really Catches Your Attention
May 26th, 2006
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.
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