#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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We’ve lost a true legend

Eddie Jordan, former F1 team owner, dies aged 76

Tributes have been paid from across Formula One after the death of the former team owner Eddie Jordan, aged 76. The Irishman was a well-liked and well-respected figure who had defied the odds to bring his independent Jordan team into the sport and went on to achieve notable successes such as four grand prix wins, including one for Damon Hill, and giving Michael Schumacher his first seat in F1.

Jordan, popularly known as “EJ”, had been diagnosed with bladder and prostate cancer in December of last year that had spread to his spine and pelvis. His family released a statement on Thursday morning announcing he had passed away peacefully at his home in Cape Town.

“EJ brought an abundance of charisma, energy and Irish charm everywhere he went,” they said. “We all have a huge hole missing without his presence. He will be missed by so many people, but he leaves us with tons of great memories to keep us smiling through our sorrow.”

Hill, who took the team’s debut F1 victory at Spa in 1998, described ­Jordan as a true legend.

“Eddie was chaotic and a genius all at the same time. He had the energy of 100 men. He created so much joy and had a massive heart. There will only ever be one EJ,” he said. “He left his mark on the sport. He came from nothing, he worked his way up by using his cunning and guile. And, by his own admission, it wasn’t because of his good looks but because he was undeniable.

“He had a way of getting himself into your life. He was extraordinary and brilliant. He had a lovely family and he enriched life all around him. My heart goes out to them. The sport has lost a true legend and we have lost a true friend.”

Jordan was a dynamic, enthusiastic force of nature within F1, renowned for pulling off deals, his warmth, humour and his direct speaking that he retained throughout his life. Insistent on doing things his own way, he was unbowed by the scale and power of the competition he faced while running his team, which he forged from nothing and which would go on at their peak to be in the running for a championship during the period they raced between 1991 and 2005.

A former driver, he won the Irish kart championship at his first attempt in 1971 but suffered an accident in Formula Three in 1976 and in 1979 moved into team ownership. As Eddie Jordan Racing he enjoyed success in Formula 3000 and F3, including with Johnny Herbert winning the British F3 title in 1987.

His eye for talent was keen and over this period he gave a start to a host of drivers who would go on to success, including Hill and Herbert, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine and Martin Brundle.

That eye for talent extended to his personnel and he brought in the engineer Gary Anderson to design their first car, the 191, a distinctive, remarkably good-looking F1 car to this day, which would set the standard for the team punching above their weight.

Equally notable was Jordan putting Schumacher, who would go on to take seven world championships, into it that season when he needed a replacement for the Belgian GP, after his driver Bertrand Gachot had been jailed. The German shone in qualifying and, despite an early race exit with a mechanical failure, Jordan wanted to keep him on only for Benetton to sign him for the next race. A baptism of fire – “Welcome to the Piranha Club” was the McLaren head Ron Dennis’s response – to the brutal realities of F1.

Undeterred, he battled relentlessly, achieving results well beyond the means of his small outfit struggling for backing and resources. Ever with an eye for a deal, Jordan secured the sponsorship of the cigarette manufacturer Benson & Hedges in 1996 and with the funding made great strides. In 1998 he had Hill, who had won the world championship with Williams in 1996, on board, a new deal with Honda engines and the designer Mike Gascoyne. They took their first victory – a one-two for Hill and his teammate Ralf Schumacher – at a wet Belgian GP.

A year later they enjoyed their best season, with Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who won two races, alongside Hill, and the team made it to third in the championship, heights they would not reach again. The financial backing subsequently dwindled and with it the results. They scored one further win, at the chaotic Brazilian GP in 2003. The victory was initially awarded to Kimi Räikkönen when a major crash halted proceedings, until Jordan pointed out that his man, Giancarlo Fisichella, had been leading when it was stopped and the win was duly given to Jordan.

Unable to compete with the major players financially and match their investment in performance, Jordan reluctantly sold the team to the Midland group in 2006 for $60m, an immense return. They would then go through the iterations of Spyker, Force India and Racing Point before becoming Aston Martin in 2021. Aston still used the original Jordan Silverstone base right up until they took up residence in a state of the art factory at the ­circuit last year.

The chief executive of F1, Stefano Domenicali, paid tribute to Jordan on behalf of the sport. “We are deeply saddened to hear about the sudden loss of Eddie Jordan,” he said. “With his inexhaustible energy he always knew how to make people smile, remaining genuine and brilliant at all times. Eddie has been a protagonist of an era of F1 and he will be deeply missed. In this moment of sorrow, my thoughts and those of the entire Formula One family are with his family and loved ones.”

The Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, to whom Jordan had offered his team for sale, also acknowledged his importance to the sport. “Very sorry to hear Eddie Jordan has sadly passed. Eddie was a hugely colourful character who I first met in 1991 as a young driver at his then new factory after his first year in Formula One. His advice, ‘get a good sponsor … ‘Welcome to the Piranha Club’,” he said. “Formula One has lost a legend and we will miss his wit and his Irish charm.”

F1’s governing body, the FIA, paid a similar tribute. “Eddie Jordan was a legend of Formula One. He made an invaluable contribution to global motor sport throughout his life,” it said. “All of us at the FIA would like to send our deepest condolences to his family and friends at this very difficult time. Eddie will always be remembered as a great sportsman and passionate ambassador for Formula One on and off the track.”

Jordan remained working in F1 as an outspoken TV pundit for the BBC and ­Channel 4 and then as the manager for ­the enormously successful designer Adrian Newey, for whom he negotiated a deal to leave Red Bull and join Aston Martin, the team that had evolved from Jordan’s fledgling outfit and with whom Newey began work earlier this year.

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I'm JS. Are you the cool guy in North Texas that smokes Benson & Hedges Menthol 100's?

JS

Yup, that's me (but don't know if I am that 'cool guy' or not!). LOL! I am in LOVE with B&H Menthol 100s - the first time I tried 'em, they really turned me on - but - also smoke B&H Regular 100's occasionally along with a few other brands! Do I know you? If so, how and from where? Smokin'Men? Instagram? X? Let's become buddies!

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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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Your old work jeans have an imprint in the right coin pocket, a spot worn over time from the same metal lighter rubbing against the fabric over and over again. I have a lighter just like it buried somewhere unused, unknown, untouched. I promised to refill it one day and just forgot. If I were to replace yours with mine would we notice a difference?

We've lived our lives in strange parallels.

I can hear the distinct click or the flick of a lighter ringing in my ears. Did I ever tell you my brother had a habit of flicking a sparkwheel lighter when I was younger? Flick-click-fwoosh. Flick-flick-flick. Flick. Now I do it too.

Standing out in the cold with rosy cheeks, my hands were in your pockets as I thought about how many bad habits you lit on nights just like this and if I'm any different. With an inhale the end lights up cherry red like the color of my favorite lipstick. With an exhale you murmur my name. I haven't heard my name said like that in so long. Reverent. Like it's easy, like it's kind.

A light flickers somewhere.

I hate the smell of cigarettes, except for the faint sweet scent that gets left on a woman's skin after smoking a pack of Camels. I still remember the cigarettes my mother used to smoke when I was a child. Benson & Hedges 100's Lights. They cost $4.

You coughed for 21 days after you quit. A soft callus forms around a broken bone. I hated my ex for being addicted to tobacco and then sneaking cigarettes as if I couldn't smell it in his kiss after I asked him to quit. The doctors gave you meds and the weather cleared up.

I'm much worse for the lungs and I know, I know you'll disagree but I've become used to people telling me that I make it hard for them to breathe. A pill or an empty bottle is known to be a first-line treatment for having spent time with me.

You bought my favorite drink just to feel closer to me.

4 weeks ago I said I'd like it if you quit smoking.

I once told someone that I liked my back caressed softly because it helped me sleep. I don't remember feeling a touch on my back that night, or any other night that followed but I remember sleeping on my stomach with my back exposed.

Warmth engulfs me as I step through the front door. I told you that if a house doesn't feel warm when you enter, it isn't a home. I think people can be the same. You laughed a little and said I wasn't stepping foot inside your apartment. I smiled. I imagined your boots resting next to my heels at night.

You haven't smoked a cigarette since.

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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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When cigarette companies ruled the world.

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you give off 2d vibes tbh

thanks!