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

[calixprynce]

nikka I’ve lived on the southside of chi most of my life and I dont smoke, I’ve seen these billboards and ads on the back of magazines my whole life.

never once did I think “hmm let me go get a pack of Newports ” cuz I know what they do and nikkas do too.

Ok and? That’s you. That’s a weak argument. Everybody ain’t built the same and yo exception ain’t the rule

 

[Noriega]

Ok and? That’s you. That’s a weak argument. Everybody ain’t built the same and yo exception ain’t the rule

So others are weak minded and easily influenced to buy products that are known to kill?

tip toe around personal accountability Brehs

 

[SNYC]

They had the Black Men in dominant roles and the White Men is subjective and submissive roles:

@ those ads

Remember how the corner store facade was plastered with tobacco and alcohol ads?

Even the Flintstones used to sell cigs




The Alcohol companies were no better. St. Ides cut that check to the top rappers in the 90s to sell brew. Imagine if that stuff was actually any good.

 

[malleymal]

Man I never got hooked on smoking or drinking, but it wasn’t for a lack of these companies trying.

Ice cream man would come around with candy cigarettes and the bubble gum ones that actually pushed out real dust when you blew them. shyt was sad.

 

[Sccit]

APPARENTLY NEWPORTS HAVE MORE CHEMICALS THAN ANY OF THE OTHER BRANDS

AKA THE MOST DANGEROUS CIGARETTE

THE HOMIE TOLD ME THIS WAY BACK.. CLAIMED IT WAS MADE LIKE THAT AND MARKETED TOWARDS BLACK FOLKS PURPOSELY

 

[Sccit]

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.

YOURE A PARANOID NUTJOB

 

[Reggie]

The fact that they were marketed as the cool thing to do and mostly to us blacks is the shyt that pisses me off in retrospect. Maybe if i hadn't have seen ads in magazines on the regular it wouldn't have been on my subconscious and possibly i would have never started smoking the fukking things.

 

[calixprynce]

So others are weak minded and easily influenced to buy products that are known to kill?

tip toe around personal accountability Brehs

It’s because of the hypocrisy involved behind the scenes. Food, drugs, beverage , etc . All the unhealthy shyt is allowed because of $$$. American Cancer Society do business with tobacco companies, Susan Komen (?) do business with unhealthy food companies and tobacco companies , etc . I’m gonna find a link to a book . All these companies and lobby groups are crooked.
At that point, no the average American is no match for big govt .

 

[call_me_step_daddy]

i stopped smoking cigs back in January


now i'll just smoke a black n mild every now & then but i will be quitting that soon as well

 

[SNYC]

Then you had some Dems & Al Sharpton who opposed banning menthol cigs like Newports.

Influential Harlem civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton has opposed a menthol cigarette ban, saying it could create “another Eric Garner situation” because the legislation fails to address how cops would enforce such a law.

“Eric Garner was killed during an encounter selling loosies,” Sharpton said in January, referring to the Staten Island man who died in 2014 after being taken down by a cop amid a dispute over selling illegal smokes.

Sharpton heads the National Action Network, which has received funding from tobacco giant RJ Reynolds — the maker of the nation’s top-selling menthol cigarette brand, Newport.

https://nypost.com/2019/09/30/naacp...or-failing-to-back-ban-on-menthol-cigarettes/

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Nigas
Either
Winning
Pimping
Or
Running
Things

 

[BlackAchilles]

So how did they get cacs hooked, cause their the biggest smokers

 

[get these nets]

;;

 

[Mastamimd]

So how did they get cacs hooked, cause their the biggest smokers

They probably did the same thing

They used to give out free packs of Camels when I was in college

 

[Noriega]

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

Yep, I remember them posting up on campus with blonde white girls passing them out by the case

Glad I never got into caffeine, energy drinks, nicotine.