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The Cardiff factory was demolished the following year. Freeman's factory in Cardiff at which Hamlet's cigars were produced was announced in September 2007, and production transitioned to Gallaher's Ballymena factory by September 2009. It was eventually forced to do so by the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002. The final cinema adverts were initially shown from 1999 with the special slogan "Happiness will always be a cigar called Hamlet," although they reverted to the original tagline for a period after the UK tobacco industry refused to cease advertising voluntarily. Since the UK banned all tobacco advertising on television, cinema and radio in the 1990s, as did much of Europe during that decade, the adverts are no longer aired. As the "Happiness" line is being said, Columbus is seen smoking on deck as he and the ship both fall off the edge of the world. On hearing this Columbus takes out a cigar. Next moment the look-out on the crow's nest shouts "Captain! The edge of the World!". He rebukes his advisors by saying "Nonsense! The world is round". He takes out a cigar and starts smoking while sitting on a chair.Īnother ad showed Christopher Columbus aboard the Santa Maria being advised to turn around or the ship will fall off the edge of the world. The "Happiness" line is delivered in a metallic-sounding voice.Īnother ad showed a street artist drawing pictures with chalk on the pavement when it starts to rain, washing away the pictures. On realising this the said robot opens his chest to reveal a Hamlet pack and begins smoking. Due to an error, one of the robots has its head placed back-to-front. Īnother ad showed a production line where robots were being manufactured. The cigar, its packaging and even the brand's logo never appear on the screen. As Fisher's face reenters the screen, he exhales smoke and smiles as a voiceover reads the slogan. The show's unkempt Baldy Man character (as played by Gregor Fisher) struggles to pose calmly in a photo booth, and after his height-adjustable seat drops him almost out of the frame, is heard to strike a match. One advertisement created a diversion by appearing to be advertising beer: a man, dying of thirst in a desert, finds a can of Heineken but accidentally spills it all into the sand so instead he lights up a Hamlet cigar.Īnother ad from the series, produced in 1986 by Collett Dickenson Pearce, recreated a skit from the debut episode of BBC Scotland sketch show Naked Video which first aired just months earlier. Much of the humour in the ads came from the fact that the product being advertised was deliberately unclear until the tell-tale cigar appeared, accompanied by the tune of Bach's Air on the G String, played by French musician Jacques Loussier, and the line " Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet". They are most famous in the UK for their comical advertisements, which presented scenes in which a man, having failed dismally at something, is consoled by lighting a Hamlet cigar.
Hamlet cigars were first launched in the UK in 1964, and more recently have been launched in a number of other western European markets. They were regularly referred to as the 'mild cigar' in their advertising. They are available in several varieties, miniatures and also a regular length. Hamlet is a brand of cigar produced by the Gallaher Group division of Japan Tobacco. ( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. This article contains content that is written like an advertisement.
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