At 11:50 PM on Jan. 1, 1971, the last television ad for cigarettes ran on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, signaling the end of an era and shifting the media world in ways that are still ...

The first print ad for tobacco is believed to date from 1789, ... In the 1940s and ’50s, manufacturers penned catchy slogans (“Winston tastes good like a cigarette should”) ...

Do You Remember These ’50s Christmas ... Christmas TV ads, which promote everything from Elvis Presley’s first Christmas ...

Tobacco companies were the single largest product advertisers on television in 1969. ... (The last televised cigarette ad ran on Jan. 1, 1971 at 11:50 p.m. during NBC’s “Johnny Carson Show. ”) ...