{"id":964,"date":"2010-07-20T08:54:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T08:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/clampetts-shills-for-cigarettes.html"},"modified":"2010-07-20T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T08:54:52","slug":"clampetts-shills-for-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/clampetts-shills-for-cigarettes.html","title":{"rendered":"Clampetts: Shills for cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I got caught up in watching old cigarette ads on YouTube. It&#8217;s like going into some Bizarro universe. Did you know there&#8217;s an entire series of Winston ads starring the Beverly Hillbillies? I swear, these are the weirdest damn things. Here&#8217;s the first one; below the jump, I&#8217;ve posted others. I&#8217;ve put the first in the series here, because it seems wrong to list them out of order (there&#8217;s a narrative to the commercials), but I especially recommend the one below the jump, in which Jed teaches Granny how to smoke Winstons. 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