I wonder how many places burned down before they stopped the pre-lit part.
48 0 ReplyProbably no more than would have burned down anyway from everyone smoking inside them.
34 0 ReplyThey had incinerators in women’s bathrooms for burning sanitary pads, before tampons came around.
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Safety was their number one priority, which is why they used plenty of asbestos inside each machine.
32 0 ReplyAnd in the filters.
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"Have you seen this"
10/10 marketing effort
Life really was that easy back then huh (except for that whole racism thing)
34 1 Replyexcept for that whole racism thing
And great depression thing ... and then the world war 2 thing ... and the Spanish flu and world war 1 only about a decade before.
You can imagine a future person looking at a video of someone with a fidget spinner and thinking "life really was easy back then."
Every generation has different luxuries and problems.
23 0 ReplyGuess you don't have to try hard to sell a product if people are addicted to it, be they cigarettes or fidget spinners.
5 1 ReplyI dunno... I can look back at native Americans before whitey showed up or further back to hunter-gatherers and think they had it pretty easy compared to now. They didn't spend 8+ hours a day, every day working at a thing that's meaningless; they didn't have mortgages or bills; they didn't have traffic; or ads, or any number of the dumb ass things we've made harder in the effort of making things easier.
I'd take a lack of medicine and the possibility of being eaten by wild animals over all the modern bullshit that makes it impossible to just live.
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How absolutely insane. I love it.
24 0 ReplyWhat a time to be alive!
21 0 ReplyThings are looking up! This Great Depression is going to ebb any day, and then it's smooth sailing for humanity!
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I can't quite tell because the picture pixelizes quickly when zoomed, but that cigarette looks like a mostly smoked butt.
12 0 ReplyI don't think it is because it would have been unfiltered back then.
14 0 ReplyI did consider that. I think she's just got most of it hidden in her hand somehow
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The shade from her finger makes it appear shorter. The full length can be judged by the image on the machine.
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5 0 ReplyIt reminds me of an aloo gobi vending machine I saw the other day.
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My guess is she held it up for the picture not just got it from the machine.
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My first thought was the little Black Cat firecrackers, which sounds way more fun than pre-lit smokes
11 0 ReplyPre-lit firecrackers, how chaotic
6 0 ReplySomebody told me once that cigarette paper contains what is basically gunpowder, which is why it burns continually and makes it burn quickly when smoking it. I don’t know if that’s true, but maybe there’s a connection there.
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I'd bet Snoop Dogg would love one of these.
8 0 ReplyWouldn't he prefer one that dispensed lit joints?
6 2 ReplyI'm sure that's the first thing he'd fill it with. His personal joint roller would probably be able to go on vacation once in awhile too.
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