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The rise and fall of youth

cigarette brands

Market Share - 1953 to 2000


Advertising and marketing of
youth brands
1953 Top Brands Among Youth
Roper Poll-Study of 15-17 year olds
Lucky Strike 33% •Non-filtered
Camel Brands 82% of top
17% youth brands.

Pall Mall
12% Chesterfields
11%

Philip Morris
9%

Kent, Winston, Viceroy 1%


Marlboro <1%

Kool 1%
Filter tipped brands were introduced
during the 1950’s, several of which
became popular with new smokers
Winston
Kool Filter Salem Newpo
1952 1953 1954 rt
1956

1 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1

Kent New
1952 Marlboro
1954

TMA Directory of Cigarette Brands – 1864-1988


Top Selling Brands Among High
School Students,1959
Winsto
n
12%

Kent 11%

Pall Mall
10%

Camel
8% Lucky
Strike
Marlboro Chesterfield 6%
5% s 5% Salem
5%

Phili Viceroy Newport


p 5% 4%
Morr Kool
is Filter
2% 2%
Television
sponsored
programming
Phil
Silversiubillies
Beverly Hillbillies
Art Linkletter
Lawman

1959
Leo Burnett hired to reposition Marlboro
as a masculine cigarette. PM Executive VP
touts the campaign as a “fresh
youthful...approach.”

1957
1956

1946
Kent 1957 Kool 1958
Top Selling Youth Brands, 1964
Winsto
n
32%
Marlboro
10%

Kool
Filter 5%

Newport
1%

Salem
6%
Kent ?

RJR-517142426 - RJR 504446752


Sports Promotions and TV
advertising especially before 1964

Promotions include the reaching a “Captive Audience”


Sports Sponsorship
Major League Baseball Sponsorship
College Football Bowl Games
Olympic games of 1960 and 1964
NFL Athlete Endorsements
Frank Gifford promotes
Lucky Strike as the
“brand to start with”

1960 Sponsorships
Winston display-1965
TV Promotions target kids

Flintstones Winston commercial– http:www.moderntv.com


Maxwell Data and 1983 SOS

Advertising Code
SGR

"Camel. Five Year Rolling Average Share.". 10 Sep 1985. Bates: 504446752-
504446762. View on TDO: RJR/504446752-6762.
Marlboro Country - 1963
Top Brands Among Youth 1972
Marlboro 42%

Kool
Filter
Winston14%
13%
Salem 6%

Viceroy 1% Kent Newport


1% 1%

Pall Mall
<0.5%
PM, Camel, Chesterfields,
Lucky Strike-NA
Maxwell Data and 1983 SOS

Camel. Five Year Rolling Average Share.". 10 Sep 1985. Bates: 504446752-504446762. View on
TDO: RJR/504446752-6762.
Marlboro reds turn to gold

1973
1972
Marlboro and Kool are the “in-
brands” in 1975
Marlboro 36%

Kool 20%

Winston 13%

Salem 11%

Newport
4%
Kool

1972 Life-c ame16.11


1976
1975

1973
Maxwell Data and 1983 SOS

Camel. Five Year Rolling Average Share.". 10 Sep 1985. Bates: 504446752-504446762. View on
TDO: RJR/504446752-6762.
Newport becomes Alive with
Pleasure 1973

1970
1972 1975
Maxwell Data and 1983 SOS

Camel. Five Year Rolling Average Share.". 10 Sep 1985. Bates: 504446752-504446762. View on
TDO: RJR/504446752-6762.
Winston loses its focus

1973

1976
Maxwell Data and 1983 SOS

1960’s
Camel. Five Year Rolling Average Share.". 10 Sep 1985. Bates: 504446752-504446762. View
on TDO: RJR/504446752-6762.
Top Selling Brands Among Youth
Marlboro
69%

Newp 1989 12-17


ort
8% year olds
Camel
8%
Winst
on
3%

Salem 2%

Kool 1%
Tobacco’s search for the fountain
of youth

1985 1989
Joe goes to college
Tobacco’s 1990 Images
1993
1995

1996
1994

1998
1998
Tobacco’s reach for the stars
Philip Morris supplies cigarettes for movies:
Blade Runner
Grease II
The Fan
Mommy Dearest
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Dream Team
Superman
Cigarette promotions appear in
• Children’s games
• Comic books
• Video Games

Super Monaco GP game

Batman October 1992


Richards et al. Tobacco Control 1996; 5:296
Kool keeps trying

Kool Sponsors 1998 HORDE Festival

Be Kool Campaign 1997/1998


Top Brands Among Youth - 2000
Marlboro
55%

Newp
ort
21%

Camel Filter
10%
Winst
on
3%

Kool
Filter
MMWR 1994
1%
SAMHSA – Summary of Findings from the 2000 National
Health Household Survey on Drug Abuse H13
Salem

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