Talk:Chesterfield (cigarette)

all the citation numbers are #!, which only refers to the Regan ad

The title track of Donald Fagen's 1982 album "The Nightfly" features a prominent reference to Chesterfield Kings and a package is also featured on the album cover (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightfly). I have also heard a sound clip of W.C. Fields responding that the "C" in his name stood for "Chester" which apparently cost him a sponsorship from Luck Strike. _______

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I would like to see if anyone can add citation to the section "Chesterfield cigarettes in popular culture" archived as follows (as at May 8, 2010 14:27 last edited by 69.166.180.176): 

Chesterfield cigarettes in popular culture

 * In a 1952 radio version of Dragnet (show#169 The Big Bull)show creator Jack Webb plugs Chesterfield cigarettes —Preceding unsigned comment added by HutchN (talk • contribs) 16:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * In the novel Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane, Teddy Daniels Reaches for his Chesterfields


 * In True Romance, a film written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott, Dennis Hopper's character asks Christopher Walken's for a Chesterfield.


 * In a series of advertisements made many years before he took office former US President Ronald Reagan was a spokesman for Chesterfields. In one of them he is seen addressing cartons of cigarettes as Christmas gifts for "all my friends".


 * Rod Serling advertised Chesterfield cigarettes in some of his Twilight Zone episodes.


 * Chesterfield sponsored the Chesterfield Supper Club NBC radio series and television series, hosted by Perry Como.


 * Leona Helmsley claimed that she appeared in billboard ads for Chesterfield cigarettes, but her claim remains entirely unsubstantiated


 * Sponsor of Dragnet


 * In the 1991 novel Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon, Stevie Cauley was nicknamed "Little Stevie" for his short height, his growth probably stunted from chain-smoking Chesterfields.


 * Being Lucille Ball's favorite cigarette brand, she put Chesterfield cigarettes in Phillip Morris boxes during the filming of I Love Lucy, so she could smoke her favorite brand without upsetting the sponsors.


 * The 1958 television series Steve Canyon based on the Milton Caniff comic strip about an Air Force pilot, was sponsored by Chesterfield. Star Dean Fredericks appeared in print and televisions ads for the cigarette, and was seen smoking the brand in the series. Additionally, Chesterfield produced Air Force-themed ads, complete with matching jingles, to be shown in the episodes.


 * In Jean-Luc Goddard's seminal French New Wave film Breathless, the main character, Michel Poiccard, claims to smoke only Chesterfields.


 * In the 1960s, print ads for Chesterfield featured color photographs of four smokers from various walks of life with the headline "Chesterfield People: They like a mild smoke, but they don't like filters."


 * In the mid 1980s, Chesterfield was the main sponsor of certain primetime American television series shown in Argentina, such as The A-Team and Miami Vice, and presented them as "The Chesterfield Hour," or something to that effect. Each show would start with a musical Chesterfield intro.


 * 'Sound off for Chesterfield' was the advertising slogan used in the Martin and Lewis radio show.


 * James Bond's cigarette of choice when he was out of or could not obtain his usual Morland brand was Chesterfield.


 * The cult '90s pop punk band Jawbreaker's song "Chesterfield King" off their album Bivouac makes several references to the brand.


 * Independent film actor Matt Galdikas preferred Chesterfields. There is a pack seen in the 2001 film 1932: A Year to Remember.


 * Stuntman Mike, the serial killer in the Quentin Tarantino movie Death Proof, is seen smoking Chesterfields.


 * Harvey Keitel's character in Reservoir Dogs offers Steve Buscemi's character a Chesterfield.


 * Stephen King mentions the cigarettes occasionally. In his novel Pet Semetary, the character Jud Crandal frequently smokes Chesterfield cigarettes.  In Needful Things, Eddie Warburton was mentioned with a Chesterfield in his mouth.  In his short story Low Men in Yellow Coats, Ted Brautigan is said to smoke a lot of Chesterfields.  This moves the character Bobby Garfield to also smoke a lot of Chesterfields later in life.


 * In the title track of Donald Fagen's 1982 album The Nightfly, Lester the Nightfly mentions having "plenty of java and Chesterfield Kings."


 * In the Charles Bukowski novel, Ham on Rye the character Baldy offers Chinaski a Chesterfield cigarette.


 * The lyrics in the Blues Brothers' song "I Don't Know" mentions the Chesterfield as part of a sequence of double entendres.


 * In the 1984 Jim Jarmusch film. "Stranger Than Paradise", Willy's cousin Eva that arrives from Hungary steals a pack of Chesterfields.


 * Humphrey Bogart began smoking Chesterfield cigarettes in 1946. They are clearly visible on his desk in his flat in the 1946 film "The Big Sleep." The scene shows his hand writing on a pad of paper, with his pack of Chesterfield cigarettes above his hand.


 * In Robert A. Heinlein's novel Glory Road, toward the end of the book, hero Oscar Gordon visits Rufo at him home on the planet Center; Rufo offers him Chesterfields (which he has smuggled from Earth) and they smoke together.

Now wiki (talk) 01:02, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Why the decline?
Was there anything about a Chesterfield cigarette that caused it to lose market share? Why the decline? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.205.88 (talk) 05:49, 22 December 2014 (UTC)


 * @23.119.205.88 I guess killing millions of people was maybe something to do with it. Gymnophoria (talk) 23:11, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

“Our cigarette”
I am not at all qualified to do the necessary research, but I happen to know that there was a long and emphatic campaign in the 40s and 50s to advertise Chesterfields to African Americans as “our cigarette”, with both direct advertising and unsubtle product placement in “race movies”. It really needs to be covered here, or else, perhaps, in an article of its own with a reference from here. John W. Kennedy (talk) 21:45, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Cancer
Chesterfield cigarettes killed my grandmother. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:63:C3E6:4400:2818:4D42:523F:CA60 (talk) 14:09, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Gresterfield
Hello, I am from Morocco, 43 years old. At the beginning of 2021 I won the phone in a pack of cigarettes that I smoked, and I reached out to one of my employers with a partner Ghesterfield But it didn't deliver anything and I delivered as they said I sold my 4 wallets To be inside the box and a picture of it, I won the phone and a copy of the Wataniya card and reached them from my WhatsApp number, but they did not deliver anything until 2012.12.28. I want two people to come to my right. abdelilahabdo50@gmail.com 41.143.101.180 (talk) 17:12, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Additional sponsor
Also sponsored by Bing Crosby in a Life Magazine advertisement from September, 1944. 68.41.101.181 (talk) 18:18, 3 January 2022 (UTC)