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nobunya~

I've never seen that brand before, sure would love to try it though

Your avatar could not be more appropriate for such a journal :D

hey, I smoke cancer, and I don't care

Lucky strikes got kinda pushed off when malboro and such started coming up with bigger and better tastes. But ya I remember it, my grandpa used to have a pack saved in his bookshelf and told me about how that used to be the bomb back then.

He didnt say bomb but you get the point.

But If i think about it, wasnt it called Lucky Smoke?

hmm, I'm pretty sure they were always called Lucky Strike

MEMORY CAP!
mad TV had a skit making fun of old Sex Ed videos for school, and the father offered his son daughter wife and sons girlfriend a Lucky Smoke!


my mind kicked in.

If I'm reading the info on them they're unfiltered? (the filtered version having been discontinued in the US, though available elsewhere) I can imagine that would make them pretty unpopular except with the hardcore nicotine crowd.

*reading the info correctly

they just kinda fell out of popularity, i mean the major brands here are.. marlboro, camel, newport. old ladies smoke virginia slims. hippies smoke native american spirit. maybe old miners and rivet head industrial kids smoked lucky strikes. you can still find them but not a whole bunch.

*snrk!*
Most of the old ladies I know (former retail slave) smoked anything but Virginia Slims. :)

I had one who smoked unfiltered Camels because they were our only unfiltered cigarette. :)

They have a following in Maine. Most of the local gas stations and such seemed to have them. I remember because they have such distinct packaging... and I used to smuggle in cigarettes and one kid there liked them ._.

baka

Isn't that the brand Snake smokes?

maybe

Snake Plissken? I think he smoked American Spirit.

Solid Snake smokes Boss cigarettes I think.

No clue. Probably the no filters is the reason.

They're still around in various places. I only really know this because one of my friends smokes them on occasion.

I think the store where I work at had them at one point. I don't recall them being very popular.

As for other unfiltered varieties, we also have (or had) Camel non-filters, and Pall Mall non-filters.

Lucky Strikes are still around. They're probably the best known unfiltered cigarette, and most tobacco specialty stores (and some gas stations) have them.

LSMFT.

I'm pretty sure they sell them on the East Coast. I remember selling them when I worked at Wal~Mart a few years ago.

We only have the filtered version over in the UK, would love to get my hands on some unfiltered ones though.

I also saw some Lucky Strike rolling baccy over in Germany, and that's delicious.

Umm... i work at a gas station and we still sell Lucky Strikes, Camel non-filtered, and Basic Non-filtered. The Lucky Strikes and Camel's are both 20's size, meaning, They are the same size as a regular king's cigarette with the filter ripped off. The Basic's, however, are standard king's size. so, instead of putting in a filter, they just stuffed it with even more tobacco.

They're still available most places in Europe. I'm not sure why they disappeared, but I'm sure the lack of advertising didn't help.

I think you can still buy them in Spain, although the fact that Luckies are quite 'short' in comparison to any other cigarette doesn't help its success, given that cigarettes' price keep rising >_>

I stick to 100's kind of cigarettes for the same reason now. They're longer, so.. theoretically a pack lasts longer x3

Dude, I smoke Lucky Strikes.

what a surprise :B

I thought I mentioned it before. I'm just that much of a badass that my smokes better not have a filter and taste like World War 2 pride.

Yeah, a lot of my friends smoke Lucky Strikes. Whenever I see one, like, I don't smoke, but I have to have one :3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Strike

Well if you want an interesting Art History anecdote on Lucky Strikes...

http://yessy.com/lews12/gallery.html?i=31231

In case you want to know who Haddon Sundblom is....

check out these iconic figures http://www.americanartarchives.com/sundblom.htm

fun thing I learned while looking it up..... "It's Toasted" doesn't really mean anything, since all the cigarettes are toasted in order to kill the harsh flavor of tobacco -- it's all marketing, just like cereals that say "Fat Free", implying the other guys don't have the feature XD

They're all I smoked when I was at the peak of my smoking habit, around 2 packs a day with a Black&Mild chaser. And they're still quite available here on the West Coast in every 7-11 and cigarette store and Costco. Let me take a moment to tell you why.

There are four major cigarette distributors in the United States. These include Acme Automatic Sales, B&R Distributors, C&S Wholesale, and Cash & Carry. Of these four major distributors, only C&S wholesale and Cash & Carry, American Domestic distributors, still make Lucky Strikes available, amongst other brands. Misty, Nat Sherman, American Gold, Wave, Alpine and Djarum are other known brands carried by these companies. If you see these brands available, they also will carry Lucky Strikes.

This isn't to say, however, that these four companies are the -only- distributors. In fact, they are only four of hundreds. Often, these companies sell their cigarettes in gross, including multiple brands in one order. usually these companies have suggestions and comments areas, and if enough people comment, they may include or revive older brands. This is why some brands mysteriously appear(and disappear) from store shelves and the stores can't really give you more than a dumb look when you ask where the brands went.

If you check your local 7-11, I'll wager a gentleman's bet that you'll find your filterless Lucky Strikes.

I don't smoke 8)

also see: http://www.rjrt.com/company/brandsPortfolio.asp

"Non-Support Brands

Non support-brands are generally small-share brands, but have very loyal adult smokers who purchase them. Therefore, even though R.J. Reynolds will not provide marketing support for these brands, the company will maintain the brands' distribution where there is consumer demand.

Lucky Strike, Private-Label Brands, Eclipse, Monarch, Tareyton, Vantage, Carlton, More, GPC, Now"

Weird, we used to sell them at Shell where I used to work, and I'm all the way out in New Zealand.

*Shrug*