Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pondered the matter of how England would respond to the somewhat radical Kensitas campaign and how large would be the future shadow representing Kensitas sale's figure. They recalled that Mr. Hill had made a strenuous attempt to sell, in his unique manner, Wix & Son's Wix cigaret, that this attempt had been a failure. The blame, however, was placed on the product rather than the advertising: England is used to a tightly rolled cigaret and Wix was of the loose-rolled U. S. variety. Taking no chances, he picked for his second attempt to make a "Lucky...
...Millville, N. J., last week, the School Board, in star-chamber session, was told by an irate father of going to a teacher's house with his wife to talk about their son's progress in school: "There she sat in pajamas, puffing away at a cigaret. I asked her how the boy was making out in study and she took another inhale and asked me if he hadn't shown me his report. I told her I had seen it, and that was the reason I came to her. Then she calmly told me that...
...Memphis, Tenn., Kenneth Azdell, 6, was brought to a hospital by his parents to be cured of the cigaret habit...
Camel-Lucky. Readers of U. S. cigaret advertising were last week startled to find one great tobacco company virtually calling another a liar. Under the heading of Turning the light of Truth on false and misleading statements, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, scolded George Washington Hill and his American Tobacco Co., makers of Lucky Strikes, which claims that a special toasting process removes from cigaret tobacco its harmful irritants and corrosive acrids...
...Camel advertisement maintained that Luckies had fallen back on their toasting campaign only when the Federal Trade Commission ordered them to stop using "fake testimonials and specious argument that all can keep slender by smoking that brand of cigarettes." The Camel advertisement also objected to the inference that the cigaret industry used "rank tobaccos" with harmful irritants, saying, in effect, that while George Washington Hill could legitimately discuss the rank tobacco in Luckies and its improvement by toasting, he should not attribute such rankness to the industry as a whole. Concerning toasting itself, the Camel copy said...