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Let's help them:

"Known in the ‘50s as "Toothpaste," this was originally the standard cigarette of minty-fresh white suburbanites, before the big scary black bucks took it over and ruined it, along with Cadillacs, Tommy Hilfiger shirts, and, uh, suburbs. Before cigarettes were sold to black men for the purpose of sexual intimidation, they were allowed to revel in their polarizing blackness, their seductiveness rampant and intimidating, their purpose to steal white women away to a wild life of sexual degradation and lust."

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oh man congrats barb! that's so great.

i quit in about 2001 (cold turkey as well) and haven't looked back.

everything should start tasting better soon too.

everything.

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so the election was so bad daily caller has to switch to coverage of annoying personal vices?

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Isn't the T superimposed on the woman's mouth in the bottom right deeply creepy?

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Even though arsenic is natural, so couldn't <em>possibly</em> be harmful.

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he shotgunned it...

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Between the cigarette reviews, the booze reviews and the bikini cheesecake, I'm completely convinced that the Daily Caller is actually run by Beavis and Butt-head

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I was going to comment on how it's odd that despite the fact that they featured both men and women in their advertising, it was only the women they "T"d... until I found <a href="http:\/\/tobacco.stanford.edu\/tobacco_main\/images_body.php\?token1=fm_img2919.php" target="_blank">this</a>.

But still, a <em>deeply</em> weird campaign.

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I found it really hard to do. I was like that old joke; "Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it dozens of times!" Once I finally managed it, it was because I chose lfe over slow suicide, but for at least a year afterward I had nightmares where I started smoking again, only to wake up feeling that I was a wretched failure until it dawned on me it was only a dream. Keep it up, it's worth it. And remember, cigarettes are made by Republicans.

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I was amused by the claimed mechanism for the supposed digestive benefits - increased alkalinity. Yeah, neutralize the stomach, that'll help digestion!

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Bikeshed libel!

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This is the DC we're talking about, their preferred delivery of chestal warmth is probably fresh fecal deposits.

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<i>Only at this point does the smoker appreciate the full thickness of the product he has just inhaled. He enjoys the unexpected pleasure of being able to control it, maneuver it for a few split seconds so as to cover selected points at the top of the chest. This moment is most satisfactory, providing a warmth and respiratory presence so lacking from other cigarettes.</i>

I don't think those were Marlboros they're smoking- sounds more like DMT

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Fifty Shades of... I got nothin'...

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Pretty sure that "smoke while you're pregnant" is a conservative mantra...

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<i>Only at this point does the smoker appreciate the full thickness of the product he has just inhaled.</i>

OFFS

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