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Thursday February 16th 2012

Light Up A Lucky L.S.M.F.T.

So round, so firm, so fully-packed.
–Lucky Strike Television Commercial

At one time television commercials were dominated by cigarette adverts. This classic television commercial shows a couple at breakfast enjoying “the first cigarette of the day.”

Today cigarette advertising is banned from television, and every pack of cigarettes is required by law to have a warning from the Surgeon General of the United States. In fact, just about every country requires some kind of tobacco packaging warning message.

But back in the days of cigarette TV commercials, instead of a warning, every package of Lucky Strike cigarettes had L.S.M.F.T. Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

Here is another classic Lucky Strike commercial. The slogan is “Light up a Lucky…I

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