old cigarette packets

in reality, all of this has been a total load of old bollocks
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old cigarette packets

Postby Bungo the Mungo » 31 Jul 2012, 22:23

More stylish and more evocative than any record cover!

Choose one.


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Re: old cigarette packets

Postby yomptepi » 31 Jul 2012, 22:26

Never smoked a fag in my life, but I agree that the packaging was superb. The leery kids at school smoked dunhill, because they thought it made them look rich and prosperous.

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my grand dad smoked these all his life, and died of emphysema

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My dad smoked a pipe until his 40th birthday. Tins of this stuff all over the house...

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Postby KeithPratt » 31 Jul 2012, 22:40

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Postby Bungo the Mungo » 31 Jul 2012, 22:42

I suppose the brilliance was making something that can be mass-produced cheaply look exclusive. Dark reds, golds, classic and subdued typography...
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Postby yomptepi » 31 Jul 2012, 22:45

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Postby The Prof » 31 Jul 2012, 23:20

There was a billboard poster campaign for Old Holborn in the 80s.
The photograph on the poster was something like a bloke in the London Underground tilling a mosaic of the Old Holborn logo.

Every couple of weeks they changed the image on the billboards so he was gradually completing the job.

You didn't actually know what it was advertising until the near the end but you got the shapes and the colours.

Pretty clever actually.
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Postby Billybob Dylan » 31 Jul 2012, 23:32

A classic:

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Postby Moleskin » 02 Aug 2012, 14:08

My sister smoked these:

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Postby Neige » 02 Aug 2012, 14:14

Billybob Dylan wrote:A classic:

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I used to smoke these.

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Postby Thesiger » 02 Aug 2012, 14:16

Embassy and Silk Cut killed my dad.
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Postby Neige » 02 Aug 2012, 14:18

A huge collection from a French guy.

http://houel.perso.neuf.fr/liste_paquet.htm
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Postby souphound » 02 Aug 2012, 14:51

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Postby yellowjacket » 02 Aug 2012, 14:56

The OASIS double cd gold boxset looks like it was designed from the Benson and Hedges box......
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Postby copehead » 02 Aug 2012, 14:59

I voted Players No. 6, my Mum's fag of choice until she had a heart attack in her 30s
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Postby Deebank » 02 Aug 2012, 17:21

Copehead wrote:I voted Players No. 6, my Mum's fag of choice until she had a heart attack in her 30s


She had been on to the Silk Cut for some time when that happened.
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Postby Huw » 03 Aug 2012, 14:49

comrade moleskin wrote:My sister smoked these:

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This was the brand that killed my Dad.
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Postby Huw » 03 Aug 2012, 14:54

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Not surprisingly, this brand failed to take off in the UK.
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Postby Insouciant Western People » 03 Aug 2012, 15:31

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They were my brand of choice when I was in my late teens. Mainly because they came in a black packet.
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Postby Minnie the Minx » 03 Aug 2012, 15:33

My mum used to send me to the shop to get her Number 6.

'Ten number 6' I would say and reach up and put the pennies on the counter.

I was 9! :lol:
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Postby Moleskin » 03 Aug 2012, 15:48

Minnie the Minx wrote:My mum used to send me to the shop to get her Number 6.

'Ten number 6' I would say and reach up and put the pennies on the counter.

I was 9! :lol:


I was running a similar errand for my older sister.

The owner of the shop apparently(*) used to sell cigarettes singly to the kids from the nearby secondary school.


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