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The Cigarette Century The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

Allan M. Brandt

The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply ent...

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Behind the Bastards

The hosts quoted the book to illustrate how volunteers organized smokefunds for troops and how Reynolds marketed without promotions, highlighting the massive scale of cigarette distribution during WWI.

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I'm going to quote now from the cigarette century. To help distinguish it from its competition, Reynolds offered no promotions.

— Episode: CZM Rewind: Part Two: How Cigarettes Inv...

Episode: CZM Rewind: Part Two: How Cigarettes Invented Ever...

The hosts quoted the book to illustrate how volunteers organized smokefunds for troops and how Reynolds marketed without promotions, highlighting the massive scale of cigarette distribution during WWI.

"

I'm going to quote now from the cigarette century. To help distinguish it from its competition, Reynolds offered no promotions.

Alan Brandt writes volunteers organized smoke funds to collect donations to assure that the troops had adequate supplies of cigarettes.

The Sun Fund amassed 137 million cigarettes in a two month period.

The National Cigarette Service Committee collected the names of soldiers without families to make sure they received cigarettes.

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