Would you use a phone card if Dean Martin asked you to? Buy Bogie’s favorite thank-you gift, a Whitman’s Sampler? Celebrity endorsements must work, and of course, the added income to a writer’s, an actor’s, a singer’s income was always welcome, we’re sure.

One does wonder, however, how Abe profited from this 1888 endorsement.

Enjoy this collection of advertisements we’ve found (You can click on each for a larger image so you can read the copy):

Of course, Abe wasn’t the only president to suggest that tobacco would be a welcome holiday gift:

Notice something? They’re all men? Well, women can endorse products as well. Here’s Lucy suggesting a paint brand:

… and best of all, Doris Day on an asphalt roller. Makes me wanna go buy one today, doesn’t it you?