Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet ITV list made in 2005 and as the third funniest television advertisement ever by Campaign Live in 2008. Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet" is one of the best remembered British advertising campaigns for a tobacco product. It was a long-running campaign for Hamlet Cigars, lasting on television until all tobacco advertising on television was banned in the UK in 1991. They returned in cinemas in 1996, continuing there until 1999, with the final commemorative advert and the modified tagline, "Happiness will always be a cigar called Hamlet." Commercials used an excerpt from a
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