also was sponsored by Philip Morris and she and Desi did commercials for them.
"Ball smoke[d] a cigar... I could not believe it and she looked like a heavy smoker. She was playing 'locomotive' and she puffed in rapid succession. It lasted more than few minutes of continous non-stop smoking!!!! It was the longest run of smoking I have ever seen."
"Who can forget the episode where she lights her cigarette and ends up setting her false nose on fire?"
"I Love Lucy" (1951) | Vivian Vance
"smoked a cigarette"
"I Love Lucy" (1951) | aka The Lucy Show. Vivian Vance (cigar)
"Episode where Vivian Vance dresses up as a male window cleaner and smokes
a cigar."
"I Love Lucy" (1951) | Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance (holder)
ep. #3.29, "The Black Wig", Apr. 19, '54
"Vance has two drags-exhales through a holder, inhaling on neither one.
Ball lights a cigarette (unfiltered, of course) with three drag that seem
to be partially inhaled and thick exhales (including one through her nose)."
"I Love Lucy" (1951) | aka The Lucy Show. Lucille Ball (cigar)
"Episode were her son's little league coach banishes her from watching the
game, so she dresses up in drag, smoking a tipped cigar."
"I Love Lucy" (1951) | Lucille Ball (cigar)
"Smokes a cigar in the episode involving some famous writer. Nice light up,
wold have been better if she did not play it off as if she didn't know how
to smoke them."
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