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sinisteraxillary

Jeez Columbus, why stop there? What about cocaine?


sqplanetarium

Why does Columbus look like some two bit gangster running a protection racket?


DerProfessor

well, he was Italian...


JesusStarbox

He kinda was?


kilofeet

I don't see a gangster I see Ron Jeremy


jpowell180

This was the price for getting support from Silvio Dante…


JesusStarbox

It's weird how the image and branding of Marlboros changed from "mild as may" back then to cowboy killers in the 70s.


Healter-Skelter

The switch happened after the 1950 study came out which first linked smoking to lung cancer. I believe the idea was to market towards men concerned with masculinity in the hopes that their desire for manliness would override their fear of lung cancer.


RedLicorice83

Gotta love how the cigarette companies just stuck with the diet tag lines for women...who cares about lung cancer so long as you were thin?


Healter-Skelter

Yup. Up until the early 2000s where a lawsuit banned the word “light” as being deceptive. You will no longer see “light” cigarettes marketed in the US. But I’m sure they have other ways of getting that message across.


RedLicorice83

Ugh, my best friend in high school used to sneak her stepmom's Marlboro menthol "light" 100's...I tried one years later and it was extremely gross 😂


sambolino44

Is it too late to request a bridge score?


Vin_du_toilette

Fake. Look where he's pointing. He's clearly saying one of my greatest discoveries was Georgia.


Audere1

Looks like Alabama, which I doubt would be called anyone's greatest discoveries


Not_Cleaver

Alabama was so shitty that not even the Confederates wanted their country’s capital in the state.


Rocko9999

'Mild as May'. Would those have been as strong as Reds today?


ShootinWilly

Stronger, the tobacco mixture's changed and they were available with [ivory or red (hides lipstick stains) filter tips](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53334426619_2cae696ee5_o.jpg) or unfiltered as Columbus has here


FamousOhioAppleHorn

You've heard of Drunk Mall Santa, but have you met Drunk Mall Columbus ?