One in every thousand
Marlborough Reds is actually a jazz cigarette that will get you more stoned than a Rastafarian who's been knocking back bucket bongs all day in the hope of obtaining some kind of spiritual oneness through the fine art of smoking a shitload of drugs...

Or so a mate of mine once told me. "You smoke twenty fags a day, so thats-" I tried to do the maths. "Well, that's a shitload of fags. So you must've had a few of these ganga dragon slayers in your time," I concluded.

My mate stared at me and said woefully: "Nah, not that lucky. All I get is tobacco. I'd change to a cheaper brand, but well, you never know do ya?" And here we were in Camden Town, a place where you could score grass easier than you could in an Afghanistani souk.

I thought about asking my mate where he'd heard this load of old bollocks, but got bored and went off to do something more interesting instead...
( SpankyHanky, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 16:39, 6 replies)

I thought

That that was supposed to be Lucky Strikes - hence the name. Obviously even if they did do it way back in the annals of time; they don't now.

Shame really.
( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 17:10, closed)

This mate of mine
said if you look at the Marlborough packet in a certain way it spells out dope, or grass, or something a bit naughty and drug-related. Can't really recall if you hold the packet upside down and squint, or something. Not really sure - personally I think its a load of old bollocks....
( SpankyHanky, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 17:25, closed)

Yeah, that's why they're called Lucky Strikes.
A friend of mine smokes Luckies halfway down the filter because 'that's where they keep the heroin'. He's almost certainly joking.
(Shinigami, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 20:24, closed)

Ahh!
*casts mind back to the early 80s..
There was a rumour at school that those Marlboro people put "Something addictive" (no...really?) in their fags so's you'd keep buying them, in preference to other brands..
Something else.. they're Klan sympathisers, hence when you undo a red-top pack and lay it flat, there's three "K"s, plus a gold and a black spot, supposedly for the benefit of Jewish and Black people respectively...
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Sat 29 Aug 2009, 13:49, closed)

"obtaining some kind of spiritual oneness through the fine art of smoking a shitload of drugs... "
I'm in!!
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Sat 29 Aug 2009, 15:04, closed)

the myth...
was the one in every hundred Lucky Strikes was filled with mary-jane's finest, as these were the cigarettes given to GIs during the war and it would help improve morale, calm nerves and increase bonding between comrades in the same way a bunch of stoner mates tend to get along...

The Marlboro packet theory is that they are secretly emblematic of White Supremacy and a "South will Rise Again" secret cabal, as there are three logos on the pack that, if you turn them on their side and squint a bit, look like the letter "K" - 3 K's..KKK, see?

sheesh...
(Chad, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 15:55, closed)