I attended college between 1957 and 1962. It seemed that every day at the evening meal a tobacco company rep was at the dining hall offering a 4-cigarrette sample pack to anyone that would take it. In the beginning I did not smoke but took the samples and give them to my roommate who did. Before my freshman year was over, however, I began to avail myself of the samples, and then I was hooked. Remained a smoker from age 18 to about 30. The tobacco companies knew what they were doing. Back then we could smoke in classes. How crazy was that.
Remember when the airlines gave out the sample packs of cigarettes to passengers?
As a young teen in the mid-’50s, I’d go to the TX State Fair many times with friends. Before leaving I would always stop by the shooting gallery. The gallery used .22 short guns and offered a carton of cigarettes for certain scores. ...I always went home with a carton.