Friday - December 11, 2009

chesterfield cigarettes. not a cough in a carload.  lucky strike green goes to war.

Hey ... that’s how they used to advertise guys.  Chesterfield boasted not a cough in a carload in the 30’s and possibly early 40s.
Lucky Strike cigarettes used to have a green colored pack. Once America went to war in 1941, they couldn’t get green dye I guess. They went to the white pack I’m familiar with as I smoked those things steadily for 38 years. Unfiltered.  In 1941 they advertised, Lucky Strike Green goes to war, and went to the white package.

But way,way before then ...like way before.  Well known actresses appeared on packs. Like this brand.

Smoke,smoke,smoke that cigarette.  So I did.  But times and tastes changed. And so did cigarette ads and images.
From 1933. Lucky Strike Green

Not a Cough in a carload.  1940

I tried smoking Old Gold because I liked the package design.  But quickly went back to Luckies and stayed there.

By 1948, the folks who made my coffin nails had TV and things got interesting before they settled down to just plain dull and boring.
This was great stuff in ‘48.

H/T http://www.archive.org/details/LuckyStr1948

But in modern times like today ..... the makers can make us look like this and not only that. Vitamins too.  But I don’t wanna look like her.
So here I am stuck. Old,bald, over the hill and waiting for a water heater to be installed tomorrow.  GUARANTEED!

OK, hang on.  Youthful Glow I can accept. I can live with that.  (cough)

Posted by peiper     on 12/11/2009 at 02:16 PM   
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