When did the USA get a monopoly on the very broad term, american, anyways.
Its always bugged me
Son_of_Plato on
Nothing is more American than outsourcing labour and production in an effort not to pay their own citizens a living wage.
apallo-roon on
It doesn’t matter Americans don’t smoke anymore
samgarita on
So odd to see a pack of cigarettes without all the warning labels and rotten body parts on them
IntoxicatingVapors on
Eh, how bout the soft pack tho, those are the real (expensive) luckies anyway.
Garrentheflyingsword on
Those are the relatively new lucky strikes filters- there just rebadged Newports. My theory is rj Reynolds created these to sell to white people. (And yes I know there are filtered lucky strikes for export and in the past)
The original unfiltered American lucky strikes are still made in America and have a completely different content.
ReleventReference on
Are they still toasted?
khz30 on
RJR moved their domestic production in the 1990s to Mexico. While the US charges up to $10 USD a pack, Mexico still subsidizes tobacco production and banned vapes recently.
piray003 on
I quit smoking years ago but I only ever saw Lucky Strikes for sale once; they were in a vending machine at a dive bar in DC and they were unfiltered.
OllyDee on
That’s fine, Mexico is in America.
Elsecaller_17-5 on
Maybe you should quit in protest.
Aggressive-Secret103 on
Those are not the strikes of old they all used to be non filter with tobacco quality on par with a camel nonfilter those are trash compared to the true luckys
Yung_Corneliois on
Lucky Strike estan tostados
dospc on
Wait, do cigarettes not have to have health warnings in America? That’s more than mildly interesting to me, as basically every developed country does these days.
Screamin_Toast on
*Tarkov players heavy breathing*
bigloser42 on
han207 on
Wait, i thought they were Indonesian.
GullBladder on
Lee garner Junior would be stoked
RO4DHOG on
The Gulf of Amexica.
Reaper-fromabove on
Haha, I’ll never forget how while deployed to Iraq, we had to go to land in Lebanon for a mission.
My commander handed me a carton of lucky strikes and said to use it as currency for little things like the guys bringing the air cart or the dude marshaling the airplane.
It worked. They were very happy to get a pack of American cigs.
extraqueso on
Smoke em if you got em
s0ftreset on
kank84 on
It’s more mildly interesting to me that cigarettes in the US still have branding on them. All the boxes are the same colour in Canada, with the name in the same font for every brand, and the box is covered in warnings and photos of people with cancer.
BreakfastFluid9419 on
Mexico is apart of the American continent.
Fun_Union9542 on
BI LIGHTER 😀
Send_that_shit on
Mexicans are Americans.
It_Just_Exploded on
Thats how they became as cheap as they are. Before the switch, they were more expensive than Marlboro in my area.
schizopotato on
Well technically it’s not wrong, it doesn’t say “a united states of america original”
Tommonen on
Originally American.
BraumsSucks on
Theyre still originally from America. The slogan stands
Farados55 on
Unfiltered luckies are the best thing I ever smoked
proost1 on
Okay, I have to tell an OT Lucky Strike story. I was on an exchange to the Dutch Navy from the US and was stationed in North Holland in Den Helder in the early 90s. I had seen on the news that a container ship transiting the English Channel had lost some containers off the coast of the Netherlands and that they were washing up on the beaches. Later that morning, my boss, the first officer of the ship I was on, was standing talking to a bunch of us and breaks out a crappy looking cigarette (not straight at all) and lights it up. “Ahh, nothing like free smokes.” he says in Dutch. Turns out that on his way in to work, he swung by the beach and found a container full of Lucky Strikes that were destined for the US troops in the Gulf. He grabbed as much as he could and threw them in his car. We’re talking some saltwater soaked cigs by the carton. When he got to work, he dried a pack’s worth of Lucky Strikes and that’s what he was lighting up. Hiilarious! He was smoking them for months.
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Now they’re a North America Original
When did the USA get a monopoly on the very broad term, american, anyways.
Its always bugged me
Nothing is more American than outsourcing labour and production in an effort not to pay their own citizens a living wage.
It doesn’t matter Americans don’t smoke anymore
So odd to see a pack of cigarettes without all the warning labels and rotten body parts on them
Eh, how bout the soft pack tho, those are the real (expensive) luckies anyway.
Those are the relatively new lucky strikes filters- there just rebadged Newports. My theory is rj Reynolds created these to sell to white people. (And yes I know there are filtered lucky strikes for export and in the past)
The original unfiltered American lucky strikes are still made in America and have a completely different content.
Are they still toasted?
RJR moved their domestic production in the 1990s to Mexico. While the US charges up to $10 USD a pack, Mexico still subsidizes tobacco production and banned vapes recently.
I quit smoking years ago but I only ever saw Lucky Strikes for sale once; they were in a vending machine at a dive bar in DC and they were unfiltered.
That’s fine, Mexico is in America.
Maybe you should quit in protest.
Those are not the strikes of old they all used to be non filter with tobacco quality on par with a camel nonfilter those are trash compared to the true luckys
Lucky Strike estan tostados
Wait, do cigarettes not have to have health warnings in America? That’s more than mildly interesting to me, as basically every developed country does these days.
*Tarkov players heavy breathing*
Wait, i thought they were Indonesian.
Lee garner Junior would be stoked
The Gulf of Amexica.
Haha, I’ll never forget how while deployed to Iraq, we had to go to land in Lebanon for a mission.
My commander handed me a carton of lucky strikes and said to use it as currency for little things like the guys bringing the air cart or the dude marshaling the airplane.
It worked. They were very happy to get a pack of American cigs.
Smoke em if you got em
It’s more mildly interesting to me that cigarettes in the US still have branding on them. All the boxes are the same colour in Canada, with the name in the same font for every brand, and the box is covered in warnings and photos of people with cancer.
Mexico is apart of the American continent.
BI LIGHTER 😀
Mexicans are Americans.
Thats how they became as cheap as they are. Before the switch, they were more expensive than Marlboro in my area.
Well technically it’s not wrong, it doesn’t say “a united states of america original”
Originally American.
Theyre still originally from America. The slogan stands
Unfiltered luckies are the best thing I ever smoked
Okay, I have to tell an OT Lucky Strike story. I was on an exchange to the Dutch Navy from the US and was stationed in North Holland in Den Helder in the early 90s. I had seen on the news that a container ship transiting the English Channel had lost some containers off the coast of the Netherlands and that they were washing up on the beaches. Later that morning, my boss, the first officer of the ship I was on, was standing talking to a bunch of us and breaks out a crappy looking cigarette (not straight at all) and lights it up. “Ahh, nothing like free smokes.” he says in Dutch. Turns out that on his way in to work, he swung by the beach and found a container full of Lucky Strikes that were destined for the US troops in the Gulf. He grabbed as much as he could and threw them in his car. We’re talking some saltwater soaked cigs by the carton. When he got to work, he dried a pack’s worth of Lucky Strikes and that’s what he was lighting up. Hiilarious! He was smoking them for months.
Smoking is gross.
What’s next, 98s instead of 100s?