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Do you know
that many smokers think that low-tar or so-called light or ultra-light cigarettes are healthier then full-strength smokes. Reducing tar levels cigarettes company also tends to lower nicotine levels. It has been proved that smokers unconsciously compensate for the loss of the nicotine. Smokers of low-tar cigarettes inhale more deeply and have smokes more often.
As a response to public health concerns tobacco companies have introduced low tar cigarette brands such as L&M Lights and Marlboro Lights. These cigarette brands are packaged in such a way as to look that they are less harmful than conventional cigarettes.
Lucky Strike
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NOTICE: The manufacturer of this brand stopped releasing the cigarettes in hard cartons. Instead, they will come in 2 rows by 5 packs, wrapped in cellophane.
Lucky Strike trade mark was registered in Virginia in 1871. Lucky Strike cigarette brand relates to the generation of legendary cigarette since of its debut on American market. From the very beginning, Lucky Strike cigarettes were sold in metallic boxes, which were convenient in use and allowed to preserve the freshness of original American tobacco. However, there are dates which prove that Lucky Strike cigarettes appeared considerably earlier.
Tobacco was discovered by Europeans during the first journey of Columbus to America and played an important role in further development of navigation to the new continent. America was the continent of great dreams and achievements. The American society was built by self-confident and free-thinking individualists. This was a society of men and women, who left their previous routine life on the old continent and left for the West, tending to success and believing in their lucky star. This was the epoch of the great finders of gold. This was the epoch of great 'lucky finders'. It is believed that this was the moment of when expression "Lucky Strike" appeared. The expression indicated "successful entry", "successful discovery" or "successful impact".
Thus, "Lucky Strike" became authentic American expression, personifying the free spirit of democratic society, and therefore Lucky Strike cigarettes became the symbol of free spirit, by which is characterized Lucky Strike smokers.
The history of Lucky Strike cigarette was always tightly interconnected with the development of society. Thus, in 30's, Lucky Strike brand showed its solidarity with women in the period of their emancipation. Being the "concealed" users of goods, which were considered available only to men, women left on the streets by lighting the 'torches of freedom', that was the Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Specifically in that moment women decided to prove and to return their equality to the men. The green color of bundle Lucky Strike of that period became for women a fashionable color.
Being very popular also among the soldiers, Lucky Strike cigarettes were used as valuable change, while the current money lost their value. After war, Lucky Strike changed its color of bundle from green to white, symbolizing thus the beginning of peaceful life.
Lucky Strike is original in everything; in its history, taste and design of bundle. Even nowadays, Lucky Strike continues to remain the expression of originality.
