Word: cigaretted
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...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...
...Philip Perkins, onetime (1928) British amateur golf champion, who lights one cigaret from another when playing, calls his caddy ''laddy" and was well liked by his U. S. opponents in the Walker Cup matches of 1928 but unpopular with his teammates because of his alleged conceit: the Bermuda amateur championship at the Riddell's Bay Club...
Statistics. A study of the industry was issued by Moody's Investors' Service. Noting that U.S. women smoked 14,000,000,000 cigarets in 1929, or 12% of the total, the analysis concluded that the brand which wins favor among women will gain future leadership. "The consumption of cigarets," continued Moody's, "will show an estimated increase in 1930 of nearly 10% over 1929. In forecasting future trends the estimate is made that by 1939 cigaret consumption will reach the staggering total of at least 202,000,000,000 compared with...