Just what does gas in cigarette smoke taste like? - Ad for Lark cigarettes (1970)

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schnokobaer@feddit.org · 16 pts · 2d (1 reply)

So you were just inhaling solids then huh...

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d

totally not detrimental to your health!

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 2d (1 reply)

“Hear me out. We put our product next to 4 people making ‘eww’ faces. And talk about inhaling gas.”

Board room erupts in applause

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

literally what happened

Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 2d (5 replies)

I wonder if the association to gasoline or even potential for confusion with gasoline is deliberate here

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d (3 replies)

they thought it sounded cooler than it really is

makeshift0546@lemmy.today · -7 pts · 2d (2 replies)

It was cool you nerd. Times change 🤷‍♂️

The amount of snark and lack of context these 20 year olds come out with over something now dumb 60 years later is absurd 🤣

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

straight up rolled tobacco is cool, regular fags are not cool.

sukhmel@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1d

I assume it was /s?

charokol@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d

It has to be. The general concept of “gas“ doesn’t have a particular smell, but gasoline does.

kokesh@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d (2 replies)

I just say it's hard to follow the text. It's more confusing than anything else.

ICastFist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I blame it partly on English being what it is.

kalpol@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2d

It is badly written though. I'm not even sure at the end who's got the good gas

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d (1 reply)

It'd be even better if these were the cigs with asbestos filters

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

they might be

solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Taste like leaded gas with 98 octane rating

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d

the best kind

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1d (1 reply)

More like gaslighting

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

yup