How to smoke fewer cigarettes
This reminds me of the old joke about how to drink fewer glasses of wine a day — get a bigger glass.
"It's wacky, but it works!"
"It's wacky, but it works!"
image source: Trinkets & Trash
contemporary source: Photoplay - Nov 1976
Comments
Basically a way to extend your cigarette breaks…
Posted by Brian on 09/26/22 at 09:14 AM
Wasn't the hypocrisy obvious when a woman smoked those and kept telling the man in her life that size doesn't matter?
Posted by Phideaux on 09/26/22 at 12:09 PM
When these, and the 100mm cigarettes, first came out there was an uproar from health experts.
Until the tobacco companies demonstrated that they contained the same amount of tobacco as regular filtered cigarettes. The 100s were just packed much more loosely (so much that more than once I demonstrated to friends that it was possible to bend them 180º without breaking the papers).
These 120mm ones just had a much smaller diameter tube.
Until the tobacco companies demonstrated that they contained the same amount of tobacco as regular filtered cigarettes. The 100s were just packed much more loosely (so much that more than once I demonstrated to friends that it was possible to bend them 180º without breaking the papers).
These 120mm ones just had a much smaller diameter tube.
Posted by Stan on 09/26/22 at 10:17 PM
I wonder if they were less safe than standard size cigarettes. I'm pretty sure that the tobacco at the front of a cigarette is less toxic than the stuff near the butt because the toxins build up as smoke passes through.
Posted by ges on 09/27/22 at 09:32 PM
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.
Category: Advertising | Smoking and Tobacco | 1970s