c/vintageads · by BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2dJust what does gas in cigarette smoke taste like? - Ad for Lark cigarettes (1970) 67 points · 19 comments · view on lemmy.world
19 Comments
schnokobaer@feddit.org · 16 pts · 2d
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
“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
I wonder if the association to gasoline or even potential for confusion with gasoline is deliberate here
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
they thought it sounded cooler than it really is
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · -7 pts · 2d
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
I just say it's hard to follow the text. It's more confusing than anything else.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2d
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
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
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
More like gaslighting
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
yup