Newport giving out FREE menthols in the hood (90’s)

[Asicz]

I can give you the name of the company that pioneered national cigarette marketing to Black consumers.

Dude wrote a fake story that sounded like what people (some)wanted to hear.

WHAT SPECIFC PART OF HIS POST SOUNDES FAKE TO YOU.

MY SECOND TIME ASKING.

 

[Originalman]

Yep everyone saw these bill boards and the liquor bill boards in black neighborhoods.

At the liquor stores they gave out newport posters and liquor calendars.

I remember one liquor company had like a black swimsuit issue filled with pretty sistas that would be given out to customers.

 

[Will Ross]

That’s basic marketing give out free product get them hooked. Cigarette companies use to be horrible about marketing

 

[bnew]

I remember back in the day, a friend of mines bought a loosie from a corner store for .25 or .50 cents, we were in the 6th fukking grade.

There's a chain of people eagerly profiting from our destruction. luckily I was smart enough to just say no.

 

[Asicz]

Anybody remember the rumor that Marlboro was made by the KKK?

 

[Asicz]

Blunt wraps will affect alot of black Americans lungs long term imo.

 

[BXKingPin82]

I witnessed this growing up.



I still smoke bogeys.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I was just about to say I remember this shyt and lo and behold it's from Baltimore lol


I use to get my free pack of ports




Motherfukkers.

 

[Strapped]

Red bull gave out free samples to hook you , we all have will power

 

[BXKingPin82]

I stopped smoking around 4 years ago.


Shoutout to Apu who sold Newport singles in the gas station in the hood

Used to cop loosies as some sort of way to kick the habit.
Like if i just buy 2 cigarettes its better than buying a pack.

 

[calixprynce]

Smoking is a choice, just like alcohol use.

So can you really blame the tobacco companies?

Wtf yes. In your logic, these big pharma companies like Purdue should’ve been spared?
They are advertising a product that’s known to kill, in underprivileged neighborhoods. Show me those ads in majority white or upscale neighborhoods and you have an argument.

Until then, you sound like a dumbass cac

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Growing up my uncle had this exact billboard by his house

that shyt stayed up there for years until the bytch was peeling off

shyt use to be all up in black magazines too

JET, Ebony, all of them

 

[get these nets]

Here's a book about tobacco ad sales to blacks. My uncle is mentioned on page 194. I don't know why you felt you had to call me a liar, breh.

Tobacco Goes to College

WHAT SPECIFC PART OF HIS POST SOUNDES FAKE TO YOU.

MY SECOND TIME ASKING.

As I figured, poster read an article/book by a writer who gave his take on the marketing...........and he wrote it here.

1) how would the literacy rate factor into a narcotic product with a visible logo and distinctive packaging?

2) billboards and bus stop are STATIONARY ads that all residents of an area see all day every day.
It's a better value than (at the time) print newspapers, magazine ads, radio, or tv. There were probably 6 liquor stores/convenient stores within walking distance of the billboard, and people taking public transportation would see the ads while traveling the bus routes.


Replace "cigarette" with another product, and these "new techniques to target illiterate Blacks" were in use already to sell items to the same set of consumers.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

how would the literacy rate factor into a narcotic product with a visible logo and distinctive packaging?

Because before then, cigarette ads were primarily in print media like magazines...Why do you want my story to be false so badly?

 

[Mastamimd]

Camel used to pass out free cigarettes in the bars I used to go to, bit they switched to coupons