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A year later Lucky Strike accounted for one fifth of U.S. cigarette sales, and the brand was among the five best-selling US-consumed cigarettes. [30] In 1927 Hill began directing his marketing efforts toward women, which was the first female targeted advertising of cigarettes at this time. [31]
The song describes a woman through the use of advertising slogans. The slogan "So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw" was used in the Lucky Strike brand cigarette advertising of the time, first heard in 1944 on the Jack Benny and Your Hit Parade radio programs. [citation needed] ".
Country. United Kingdom. Introduced. 1871. Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1. Lucky Strike is an American brand of cigarettes owned by the British American Tobacco group. Individual cigarettes of the brand are often referred to colloquially as "Luckies."
R. J. Reynolds, founder Share of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, issued 15 March 1906. The son of a tobacco farmer in Virginia, Richard Joshua "R.J." Reynolds sold his shares of his father's company in Patrick County, Virginia, and ventured to the nearest town with a railroad connection, Winston-Salem, to start his own tobacco company. [3]
The 1929 "Torches of Freedom" public relations campaign equated smoking in public with female emancipation. Some women had been smoking decades earlier, but usually in private; this 1890s satirical cartoon from Germany illustrates the notion that smoking was considered unfeminine by some in that period. "Torches of Freedom" was a phrase used to ...
Lee Aubrey “Speed” Riggs (February 18, 1907 – February 1, 1987) was an American tobacco auctioneer in Durham, North Carolina, United States.For more than three decades, Riggs appeared on the radio shows Your Lucky Strike Hit Parade and The Lucky Strike Program with Jack Benny for the American Tobacco Company as the voice of Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Sold American" was released as a single in the UK paired with "Moon Love" on the HMV label as BD5854. The 1938 recording, Matrix number B 22974-1, was also released as Vocalion 4449, Okeh 4449, Brunswick 81677 in Germany, Columbia DO-2783 in Australia, Philips B 21543 in Australia, on Lucky 60514 in Japan, and was reissued by Biltmore Records ...
Steven Foster, the CEO of upscale bowling chain Lucky Strike Entertainment, was hands down the most easy-going Undercover Boss yet. The hit CBS (CBS) reality show is still as phony as the toupee ...