". . . Not a cough in a carload! Here, kid!"

A lifetime ago, as a small growing human,
I heard that at the end of Tom Smothers doing the spoken-dialogue part
of an intro to a funny song.

I had never witnessed the brand commercial for the cigarette which used that line to sell their product. No context for the quote in my mind.
I literally did not understand anything but "Here, kid!"
and the rest was a mystery for far too many decades.

When I did find out that it was "not a cough in a carload,"
cigarette commercials had for years been banned
in radio broadcasts and television broadcasts.
I was in fact looking up the Smothers Brothers act and the live performance recording in which Tom Smothers quoted the commercial.
And a comment from an older and more experienced audience member
supplied the quote, and I recognized it as the mystery phrase.

The skit, by the way, was the hugely politically incorrect "Hiawatha"
which was a lead in to the song about
Hiawatha's mittens, largely a lot of verbal foolishness in the song, like
"so to keep the cold there outside
he put the skin side inside outside ..."