This is a recipe for increasingly large deficits, as the cigarette tax will fail to raise enough revenue beyond the first ten years
In June 1932, the Axton Fisher Tobacco Company introduced to the national market a brand that had never sold well Twenty Grand, with the price of course at 10 cents a pack
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[12] The Lucky Strike signature dark-green pack was changed to white in 1942 in a famous advertising campaign that used the slogan "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war." The company claimed the change was made because the copper used in the green coloring was needed for World War II, [13] though, in reality, American Tobacco used chromium for the green ink and copper for the gold-colored trim
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