This TV commercial for Kent cigarettes dates to the 1960s and features a “British Invasion” type jingle, with images of a well-dressed, youthful couple enjoying a day out. Features the tagline “What a Good Time for a Kent”. Kent is a brand of cigarettes manufactured by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. It is named after Herbert Kent, a former executive at Lorillard Tobacco Company. Kent was the first popular filtered cigarette, with 13 billion Kent cigarettes sold in its first four years on the market. In the early 1950s, the Micronite filter in Kent cigarettes contained compressed carcinogenic blue asbestos, which may have contributed to the death of smokers through mesothelioma.

Cigarettes KILL. Nicotine is an ADDICTIVE CHEMICAL. Cigarettes cause CANCER.

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