” There were 2 newly-minted pennies inside the celophane “
Don’t forget the matches - depending on the machine, ya always got one or two packs of matches with each pack of cigarettes...
(And they were the good kind - the kind you could light with one hand... ;))
Why the strike anywhere kitchen match got banned — dunno the official story, but seems vermin sometimes chewed on the match heads and lit them? So instead of having boxes of them, or their heads, made vermin repellent, they just went out of existence. Paper matches, which still exist, seem riskier to me as you have to withdraw your finger at the exact right time after pressing and scraping the head against the friction strip. Which would sometimes lead to fumbling and dropping it. I never liked them very well, preferring rigid matches.
Yes, indeedy.