#Benson & Hedges 100s

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Philip Morris Inc, 1972

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I used to work nights at a gas station. never smoked cigarettes but I had to learn the wall so that customers didn't get pissed that I didn't know the difference between a bensons and hedges premium lux light 100s and a benson and hedges ultra light smooth 100s (one is light green and the other is light light green). I saw a lot of people smoke a lot of different things. Lots of 9-5ers that smoked things that smelled like the insole of old boots, marlboros and whatever cigarette gave me the vibe of being the diet coke of the wall. young people gravitated to menthols, those camels with the mint in them and shit. older ladies, the kind that look like they'd flog you for fun, they liked whatever brand we had that resembled the refill for a pen, the thinner the better--usually virginia slims. People that looked like they either worked a trade or went to hardcore shows smoked american spirits, orange or yellow or whatever the fuck the colors were. sometimes the black pack, but only a few. The potheads bought our swishers, them and the people who wandered at night. they'd always break them open in the parking lot and throw the tobacco on the ground, pissed off my boss but he was always up his own ass.

When I see your blog I'm reminded of those days, when I was alone at night watching green light at the intersection with no cars going through. One time I stood in the middle of the street at around 3am, because I could, and there weren't any stars I could see, felt like I was in a world that hadn't loaded in yet. There's a pack of camel wides in a drawer in my room from those days, I bought them for the end of the world. maybe one day I'll show you.

I'm glad you sent this to me, this feels so personal and beautiful and I felt a fluttering in my stomach as I read along.

I hope someday you can show me them too.

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Advertisement for Benson & Hedges 100's (1971).

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The Scottish Folk singer Alex Campbell was born on 27th April 1931 in Glasgow.

When both of his parents and his two sisters died from tuberculosis, he spent some time in an orphanage before being taken in by his grandmother. During World War II he met American, Polish and Australian servicemen who were based in Glasgow and he developed an interest in the songs they sang.

Alex was known for his hard living and heavy drinking, which contributed to his early death in 1987. He was a true busker, learning his trade on the streets of London and Paris.

Alex sang songs of all kinds, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan to Tom Paxton to Donovan; traditional Scottish ballads and his own compositions — including the classic, Been On The Road Too Long. During his career he recorded over 100 albums, many of these for ready cash, and received very little in royalties in his lifetime. It was said that no record did him justice; he had to be seen live.

Alex had a great passion for life and lived it to the fullest. According to Ewan McVicar, He never ever walked into a room; he always made an entrance. But he could always tell a story against himself. Once he and Hamish Imlach were heading for a gig, and stopped for a drink. In the lounge bar, the barmaid said Yes, gentlemen. Alex said Gentlemen? Before you is the cream of Scottish folk music — Alex Campbell and Hamish Imlach. Well have two pints of your best and twenty Benson & Hedges. The barmaid went through to the saloon bar for the cigarettes, came back and said What was the name again? Alex said Alex Campbell. The barmaid said No, no, what cigarettes?

Alex Campbell developed throat cancer and died in Denmark on 3rd January 1987.

There’s plenty of his music on Youtube, but I’ve decided to post one of his wee stories, it’s said that Alex was a big inspiration to Billy Connolly, and remember it was on the Scottish folk scene that the Big Yin started his career.

The song I have chosen is an English Ballad, but it's about a Scotsman, who has featured many times in my posts........

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1972 America's Favorite Cigarette Break. Benson & Hedges 100's

Source: Time Magazine

Published at:  https://propadv.com/smoking-ad-and-poster-collection/benson-hedges-ad-and-poster-collection/

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benson & hedges menthol 100s..... i miss u....

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"CLAIM REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS IN TOBACCO TRADE," Toronto Star. May 16, 1934. Page 9. ---- Retailers Afraid to Display Any But Imperial's Pro- ducts, Inquiry Told ---- SAYS THREATS MADE --- Special to The Star Ottawa, May 15. - H. C. Fortier, Montreal tobacco wholesaler, appearing before the tobacco price spreads inquiry, to-day declared he had become so calloused to complaints of Imperial Tobacco's alleged efforts to strangle all other competition that he could not begin to enumerate the various instances.

Quebec retailers were in constant fear of being cut off Imperial's buying list, he said.

Favors Price Maintenance John Hughes, secretary-treasurer of LO. Crothe, Ltd., of Montreal, said his firm was in favor of price maintenance.

His company had passed on to the consumers the lowered excise and sales tax in 1932 but nothing came out of their pockets, he said. Jobbers and retailers absorbed the 37 cents reduction not taken up by the reduced government tax.

Mr. Hughes claimed his 1931 price of 27 cents per pound was the highest paid by any tobacco buyer that year. In 1932, he paid 31 and 27 cents per pound on two purchases.

Witness said he had refused to supply jobbers who cut prices. "Did you ever refuse because the jobber did not belong to the association?"

"No."

"Do you contribute money to the association?" "In one case."

Charges Competition Strangled Mr. Hughes declared he did not like the methods used to strangle competition. "The methods used are so numerous it would take a week to enumerate them. Some salesmen for other manufacturers even go into tobacco shops and, if rivals goods are too prominently displayed, they will pick them up themselves and cart them to the back of the store. The retailer is afraid to say a word for fear of being cut off."

That applied more to cigars than cigarettes, he said. "To whom are you referring "Imperial Tobacco."

"Is that a real complaint?" "Yes. It is the general practice."

"Can you name them?" "Yes, but I ask that their names be withheld. Otherwise I fear for the consequences unless Imperial Tobacco has has a change of heart because of what has come out of this committee."

W. W. Kennedy, Winnipeg, Conservative, asked him to file the names for Investigation by the committee's investigators. "Otherwise we are dealing with fog," he pointed out.

"Nearly Life Death" Mr. Hughes charged "complete discrimination against his cigarettes. He cited the case of a Winnipeg retailer warned by Imperial Tobacco that their goods must have 80 per cent of his advertising space under penalty of losing the privilege of buying direct.

"Eighty per cent, means 100 per cent," he complained.

"I looked in 3 different windows to-day," said E. J. Young Lib.. Weyburn). "Imperial cigarettes dominated most windows dominated but I saw Macdonald's and your cigarettes in others."

Norman Sommerville. K.C. committee counsel: "If the retailer doesn't play with Imperial. It is life or death to him?" "Pretty near." Mr. Hughes said three weeks ago his firm put out a new cigarette in Toronto and put streamers on the streets. A day or so later Imperial plastered the streets with streamers advertising their brands.

"We put up more streamers to counteract this," he said. "To-day I received a wire from our Toronto manager telling me that almost all our streamers were taken down, but he could not prove anything."

Witness cited several instances of alleged threats by Imperial salesmen the tobacconist did not remove the showcases of rival firms. "This one funny," he observed. "This complaint does not affect our goods. It says the salesmen warned the retailer that he would have trouble buying direct unless he took Benson-Hedges cigar showcase off his counter."

Mr. Hughes declared the complaints widespread that the believed orders to salesmen must come direct from Imperial Tobacco head- quarters

"Have you any actual personal experience of this practice?" "No, but one retailer was ordered to produce for Imperial a record of all other brands he sold that month. He had ordered goods three or four days delivery delivery was held up.. He told us the Imperial salesman coming back the next day so we sent down some men to hide in the next room and listen to the conversation. The salesman told the retailer he was ashamed to do this but he had orders from head office. If the records were not forthcoming. the retailer could no longer buy direct from Imperial. Our men came out. The salesman saw he was trapped and the retailer got his supplies that afternoon."

Claims Signs Torn Down Only last week the signs advertising a new cigar his firm was making in Hull were torn down. Mr. Hughes said. "Who did this?" he was asked. "Imperial," he replied.

"Who says so?" "Our manager. He would not say so unless he had pretty definite evidence."

Major Kennedy: "It's a big fish eating the case of the little fish. That has gone on ever since there were fish."

Mr. Hughes: "Maybe we were fish to go into this but, now we are in, we will fight."

"But sometimes the little fish escape?" "The smaller they are, the better chance of escape they have."

All manufacturers could afford to the grower more for his tobacco were not for the premiums in packets of cigarettes, he said. "Who started this practice premiums? asked Sam Factor.

Mr. Sommerville: "Cards in cigarettes are as old as you or I. I remember when we used to get pictures of Delilah Fox, Lily Langtry and other famous actresses. They were to look at, though."

Claims Initiative Stultified Defining the practices which he said militated against free exercise of business Initiative, H. Fortier, prominent Montreal jobber distributing for Macdonald's, said: "We have found we would put up a British Consols sign and an Imperial man would come along and tell us he could sell us no longer direct. We arranged to distribute Macdonald's tobacco the Montreal unemployed. A few days later the retailer who distributed to the jobless was told he could no longer buy direct from Imperial."

A. C. Picard, vice-president of the Rock City Tobacco Co., at Leamington, makers of Spud and Master Mason cigarettes, said the retailer to-day was in "dangerously poor" condition "Every one of them will be out of business business in in a few years, years," he predicted. The retailer's share of the $75.000.000 Canada spends in smokes every year was $12,000,000, he said. This, divided among 57,000 retailers, is an average of $260, or $1 a week.

"The retailer should get 20 per cent. and the jobber 10 per cent. That's how it was until ten years ago, he said.

He often thought the heads of Imperial did not know the lengths to which their salesmen went to get business, he said. "They drive their men, who get so nervous and excitable they upset everything in their scramble for business. Imperial has 133 salesmen going around the country with 100 advertisers following them to check up on them.

"They are to keep on putting the fear of God into the heart of the retailer," he claimed. "The salesmen are frightened of losing their jobs if they don't seem to have firm enough hold on the retailers."

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Rothmans, Benson & Hedges - Wikipedia

Rothmans has been involved in a number of lawsuits in Canada. In a key suit which commenced in 2006, Rothmans was criminally prosecuted for fraud and conspiracy for supporting the smuggling of cigarettes on the black market in the early 1990s. The allegation was that Rothmans encouraged smuggling in order to be able to convince Canadian governments to reduce cigarette taxes and thereby discourage that very smuggling.[5] Rothmans pleaded guilty to the charges in 2008 and agreed to pay a fine of C$100 million,[6] and C$450 million in payments for a decade after the initial fine.[2]

RBH owns or otherwise controls a wide variety of cigarette brands. Some of these are listed and expanded upon below:

Accord: A discount/value brand. Brand variants offered are Red, Blue, and Green (Menthol).

Belmont: Another flagship brand, offered as King Size, Regulars, and Compact King Size (Belmont Edge (Micro in Quebec)).

Belvedere: A premium cigarette brand, offered in both regular and king size. Belvedere-branded empty cigarette tubes and rolling tobacco are also available for purchase.

Benson & Hedges: The company's flagship brand offered in three formats: King Size (Black, Gold, Silver), 100s (Regular, Sterling and DeLuxe, with a menthol version) and Superslims (Black, White, and Menthol).

Canadian Classics: A mid-tier brand. This brand is known as Québec Classique in Quebec. In 2021, Quebec Classique Special as rebrand to Quebec Classique Special Par Next and Next QC Spécial

Craven A: This brand is a part of the RBH "premium brand strategy", principally within the Canadian market. The brand has experienced "long-term declines in market share", in part due to the elimination of all sponsorship activities in Canada in October 2003.[3] The brand has been closely associated with a number of entertainment events in Canada. Among these has been the "Just for Laughs" Canadian Comedy Tour in March 1999.[4]

Davidoff: As of April 2007, RBH has started importing Davidoff cigarettes for the Canadian and Australian markets. The package does, however, state that they are still made in Germany, unlike some international cigarettes sold in Canada, which are made only in Canada.

Mark Ten: A low mid-tier brand offered in Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

Next: A budget brand.

Number 7: Low end brand.

Philip Morris: A budget brand

Rothmans: The company's other flagship brand.

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Justin was the name of the first guy I ever made out with. He was pale, with dyed black hair, fishnets on his arms and a blank expression. I was 15 and he was no doubt a few years older, if only for the fact that he had a car and apparently a job at an espresso stand. That night, we were at a Texaco station, sitting on a curb and slurping hungrily at each other’s greasy faces, knocking my blue plastic lunchbox on its side and crunching his GPC cigarettes under his bony ass. Meanwhile, my best girl friend Kat sat over in a grassy spot keeping lookout and smoking her preferred brand of Benson & Hedges Menthol 100s. It felt like a sexy moment. But after some hours had passed, a kind of unsettled guilt set in. Something hadn’t been right. Was it the fumes emanating from the gas pumps? Was it Justin’s make-up rubbing off on my face? Still, making out with a dude in public left me feeling emboldened.

[TR/ST] is a band that makes me feel this way: Dirty and kind of sorry for myself, and yet ready to take on the world. It’s an isolated sound, regretful but relishing. It’s the sound of playing dress-up by yourself, but you’re a serial killer with a Hot Topic employee trapped at the bottom of the well in your basement. It’s Erasure fronted by Buffalo Bill. In other words, it’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a band.

I love this description of them and their music—that weird mix of shame and euphoria that you get from being raised to believe there’s something wrong with you.

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Benson & Hedges 100's (1972)

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How True.... #1LinerWeds

Linda hosts One-Liner Wednesday. Now a word about Benson & Hedges 100’s regular and menthol cigarettes. Three words, four words, maybe even five words longer than king size!

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Benson & Hedges Cigarette Varieties

Although the number of smokers is not small, most people are still not very familiar with Benson & Hedges cigarettes.

Anyone who smokes will become addicted to B&H's unique aroma, making it impossible to decline an invitation.

Flavor The smoke and the Benson & Hedges aroma blend together sensually.

The ecstatic flavor that lingers on the palate is remarkable and particularly impressive for smokers.

For those who like something special, trying Benson & Hedges will be a worthy experience.

Benson & Hedges Cigarette Varieties:

Benson & Hedges premium menthol cigarettes

Benson & Hedges luxury menthol cigarettes

Benson & Hedges deluxe menthol cigarettes

Benson & Hedges premium cigarettes

Benson & Hedges luxury cigarettes

Benson & Hedges deluxe cigarettes

Benson & Hedges Cigarette Formats:

King Size (Black, Gold, Silver)

100s (Regular, Sterling, and DeLuxe, with a menthol version)

Superslims (Black, White, and Menthol)

See more: https://barcodelive.org/barcode/benson-hedges-50219728

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When I was a kid, the cigarette brand Benson & Hedges 100s used to run a sweepstakes on a 100 theme. I used to love to pore over the ads (you can still find them on eBay) because some of the prizes were normal stuff like 100 pounds sterling or a 100-piece china set, but some of them were ridiculous. A hundred pounds of sausage and a slicer. A hundred fireplace logs. Now THAT would be a lottery.

I think the funniest possible side effect to socialism would be the necessary changes to state lotteries. Like yeah they’ll still exist and be considered something like buying 25¢ war bonds in WW2, but instead of the lottery prizes being money, it’s luxury goods that were formerly the domain of the rich. Like, you play Powerball, but the grand prize is an entire pallet of caviar.

(Of course, can you trade the caviar and fur coats and whatnot for goods, services, and legal or illegal drugs? Obviously. But if you really wanted to, you could have caviar every day for like 3 years. I think you’d have a lot more people playing the lottery under this scheme! Because it’d be patriotic and if you do improbably win a prize, it’s hilarious instead of a tax headache.)

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1975 Oh, the disadvantages of our longer cigarette. Benson & Hedges 100's

Source: Time Magazine 

Published at:  https://propadv.com/smoking-ad-and-poster-collection/benson-hedges-ad-and-poster-collection/

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Benson & Hedges 100′s Cigarettes

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When cigarette companies ruled the world.