Posted on 09/22/2013 12:27:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
American TV drama series Mad Men has triggered a dramatic boom in the sales of Lucky Strike cigarettes, causing outrage among anti-smoking campaigners.
Sales of the world-famous cigarettes, owned by British American Tobacco, reached 33 billion packs last year compared to 23 billion in 2007 when the show first aired.
Mad Men features New York ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in the 1960s and their turbulent relationship with iconic cigs brand Lucky Strike. …
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Yeah, they didn’t get to the part where the son of the Lucky Strikes president is a fag.
Wow, I did they same thing.The fruit cocktail was fabulous.Do you remember the john wayne bars?
Yup agree, if it drives the anti smoking groups nuts, it makes me happy!
Luckies were in a green pack before the war and because of the war effort the green die was needed for everything else so they started using red die and never went back following the conclusion of the global ass whooping contest against the axis powers.
correct
Your tagline cracks me up.I bet that goes way back too.
” i smoked Lucky’s for years and only switched to Pall Mall when taxes went up cause for the same price i got almost another half a smoke...”
I smoked Pall Malls for 60 years before I quit.
They have the same tobacco as lucky strike and the same ammount but packed thinner.
really? i always gave the pack a good smacking before opening and never seemed to notice any more of a compression than i did with a regular deck of Lucky's
I took them apart and measured and weighed them, they are the same,
i'll be damned... learn something new here every day
Yes I do. Wish I still had an unopened can as a keepsake. The toffee in them though sometimes stuck in my teeth and seemed to take forever to get out.
OMG thats from the way back machine....its been decades since I have thought of that...
When do they get to the part when somebody in the advertising agency loses his tongue from cancer?
One of the main characters had a couple of heart attacks.
I started on Luckies, later switched to Camels. All unfiltered straights of course.
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My ‘first’ smokes were Fatimas.....Guess us young Catholic School boys figured something named in ‘honor’ of “Our Lady of Fatima” couldn’t be all that ‘bad’.
Then to Luckies (the “BullsEye” was ‘cool’ to sport through your white T shirt sleeve).
Went to Camels and smoked them for 30 some years quitting ‘cold turkey’ in 1990 at 4 packs Camel Regular per day.
Also quit case + a day Budweiser (and all alcohol) at the same time, also ‘cold turkey’.
I was a real pleasure to be around for the first month or so, still a ‘no good SOB’, just a little worse..<: <:
You’ll have to ask someone who actually watches that show.
I started off in the mid 50s swiping Chesterfields from my dad’s packs. In high school we experimented with practically every brand. Who remembers “Hit Parades,” “Spuds” or “Old Golds.” When I got to the Philippines in 1961, Chesterfields were the Filipinos’ favorites. We smuggled a lot of them off base to finance our San Miguel’s.
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