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In 1970, Congress banned all tobacco advertising from TV and radio. The following year, Lorillard introduced Maverick, its first new full-flavor cigarette since Old Gold, making heavy use of free samples. Also, as part of its venture in alternative forms of advertising, early in the 1970s Lorillard tried advertising Kent and True in paperback ...
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The tagline for the new brand was "Shouldn't your brand be True?". [5] The cigarette, when first introduced, was full flavored. It was later available in a reduced tar and nicotine version during the 1970s and 1980s. True cigarettes, like Parliament cigarettes, have a recessed filter. However, whereas Parliaments have nothing in the recessed ...
An old pack of Kent Ultras from South Africa. Widely recognized by many as the first popular filtered cigarette, Kent was introduced by the Lorillard Tobacco Company in 1952 [3] around the same time a series of articles entitled "cancer by the carton", published by Reader's Digest, [4] scared American consumers into seeking out a filter brand at a time when most brands were filterless.
A Tareyton magazine advertisement from 1980. The new Light version showed the models wearing white makeup instead of black. The advertising campaign fuelled sales robust enough to put Tareyton sales in the Top 10 American cigarette brands in the mid to late 1960s. [6] The brand declined to thirteenth place when the slogan waned in 1979.
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Viceroy was introduced by Brown & Williamson in 1936 and was the world's first cork-tipped filter cigarette. [1] It was a mid-priced brand at the time, equivalent to B&W's Raleigh cigarettes flagship brand, but more expensive than Wings cigarettes introduced by B&W in 1929.
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