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Cigarette History: Marlboro Reds, Reservation Smokes, and Newport Pleasure
from Nazi Crush · #59
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6 minTim and Ray trade extensive personal histories with cigarettes, from stealing Marlboro Reds as kids and puking, to buying discount reservation cigarettes, basics, and Newports, plus a riff on old Newport Pleasure ads showing white people on boats.
- 1:08Tim explains the FDA outlawed vanilla skull cigarettes because they worried about marketing to kids.
- 1:36Newport cigarette ads showed white people playing volleyball on boats, nothing like the actual demographic.
- 2:27Tim's cigarette history started with stealing Marlboro Reds from his friend's mother in sixth grade.
- 3:28People used to get cartons from the reservation, sometimes stopping by the casino.
- 3:46Reservation cigarettes like Warriors cost around fifteen to twenty-five dollars a carton if you haggled respectfully.
- 4:45The Warriors brand cigarettes were terrible quality, like someone threw tobacco leaves on top of sodas.
- 5:20In sixth grade going into seventh grade, Tim and his friend stole Marlboro Reds and later started stealing Basics from his friend's dad.
- 5:45Tim and his friend switched to Newports because they believed the rumor that they got you higher.
- 6:12After quitting for a while, Tim went on a Marlboro Menthol Light kick.
- 6:35Tim cycled through Marlboro Menthol Lights, regular Marlboro Lights, and Parliaments before settling on occasional Marlboro Reds.