Vintage cigarette ad says "Chesterfield Kings 21/20"...what do the numbers mean?
Prometeamoth, I found this answer... and now that I have seen the answer I remember seeing and hearing the ads when I was younger. This was a MAJOR advertising pitch for Chesterfields:
Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their King Size cigarettes with the longer length. The ad has a picture of a young man wearing a yellow hooded coat who is standing with a smile on his face and a cigarette between his lips. The ad headline claims that Chesterfield "Tastes Great because the tobaccos are!" and the ad includes another claim that "21 Great Tobaccos make 20 Wonderful Smokes!".
Choosing the lighter that's right for your needs can be quite difficult. The number of different styles, models, flame configurations and types on the market can be a bit bewildering.
While smokers of cigarettes can make do with nearly any type of lighter, even matches, pipe and cigar smokers need a specific type of lighter to ensure their smoking enjoyment. For this group of smokers, the preferred choice is some kind of torch lighter. But, there are variations even among torch lighters and discerning whether you need a single, double or triple flame lighter can be difficult.
Torch lighters offer a number of advantages and determining which flame configuration you will need is the most important part of selecting a lighter. For cigarette smokers, a torch lighter with a single flame is sufficient while the double and triple flame lighters provide too much heat. For cigar and pipe smokers, double and triple flame torch lighter styles will be your best bet. The reason for this is because the wide area of the flame lends itself to lighting pipes and cigars.
For example, if cigars are your preference, double flame torch lighters provide an increased fire to tobacco contact, allowing for a more even and efficient lighting process. If pipes are your preference, triple flame lighters may be better. Triple flame lighters deliver a wide flame allowing you to ignite the entire pipe bowl. This lessens the chance of partial burns and tamping the tobacco repeatedly due to unburned contents. The use of these lighter styles is fairly easy and can help to make sure that whether you are smoking a pipe or cigar, that it is lit on the first try.
For instance, a torch lighter can be held upside down and the flame still projects directly out from the lighter. This is opposed to other types of lighters, where the flame always tends to move toward the upward position (a painful situation for your fingers). With this type of torch lighter, pipe smokers can ensure that they are able to light their bowl without singeing their fingers or lighting only half the tobacco in the bowl. As mentioned, cigar smokers can also benefit from double and triple torch lighters, as they can help ensure a cleaner, more even lighting process and keep runs and partial burns to a minimum.
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i live in downtown san francisco, and i would like to buy some beedies, but im not sure where. I could probably ask some random Indian people in the tenderloin, but i thought i would ask here first.
O’Brien, E. (1998, November 30). "‘Beedies’ are teens’ newest addiction." The Boston Globe, pp. B1, B6.
OVERVIEW
"Beedies" are sweet little, hand wrapped, sweet tasting cigarettes, made in India and coming to the U.S. youth culture. They hit underage smokers in L.A. about 1993, moved on to cities like San Francisco, Cleveland, Chicago, and became popular with Boston kids in the late 1990s.
Hand-rolled in India, beedies are unfiltered and tapered at one or both ends and resemble a marijuana cigarette more than a machine-rolled Camel or Winston. These thin Indian cigarettes in sweet flavors like cherry and vanilla—or bidis, depending on the brand—come in pink packages that make them look more like party favors than smokes.
Greg Connolly heads the state’s tobacco control program for the Department of Public Health:
It’s a phenomenon we are just now seeing. It’s mostly in ethnic neighborhoods. It’s become sort of urban chic.
It’s not the main stores but small neighborhood stores that carry them because they can get away with selling the bright cone-shaped packages to children who immediately conceal them. Boston School Police Lieutenant Michael Hennesey says:
Sunidhi singing "Beedi" from Omkara at Idea Rocks India
Bombay airport isn't as I remembered it as a boy. Two decades ago it was a throng of pushing men, clinging women and wailing babies, all crowding around check-in desks like they were the last helicopters leaving Saigon. Today it is a different place with air conditioning and chaise-longues for those travellers that need to grab forty winks. Some things haven't changed though and there is still an air of desperation, of massed humans on the edge, amplified by the sleep deprivation caused by the ungodly hour most international flights depart. Our flight to Bangkok was scheduled for 4.45 am - but with a three hour check-in.
We left India, enshrined in the comfort of our economy class seats, just as the sun was washing out the red charcoal embers of Bombay's urban lights. The plane banked one last time before penetrating the clouds and we took our final look at India with somewhat mixed emotions. We had barely scratched its vast surface and still felt it had a lot to offer us - but on a different trip - we had had enough. As we breathed the canned atmosphere and settled into the orderliness of modern air travel we relaxed, the subconscious worries and frustrations that India breeds draining from us.
Last time we were in Bangkok we hated it and it was tough to see how moving from one of the world's most polluted cities to another of the world's most populated cites was going to be an improvement. However, from the second we disembarked we were struck by the wealth, cleanliness and orderliness of Bangkok airport. Clear signs directed us through spotless, carpeted hallways and soothing music eased our tensions as we waited in line for immigration. The smiling and laughing officials cheerfully went through their work and congratulated me on Barbara's beauty, leaving us both beaming as we walked away to reclaim our luggage.
We made our way directly to Khao San Road, marvelling at the affluence of a city that just three years ago we thought to be a squalid open sewer; the roads were smooth with frequent flyovers, the taxis were air conditioned and there were BMWs everywhere. Khao San Road, a tightly packed area of Bangkok that almost exclusively caters to the budget traveller, provides little in the way of a cultural experience and is either a tourist hell or a Mecca depending your perspective. From where we were standing it was a paradise.
The streets are lined with every convenience: tasty chicken skewers, fresh cut pineapple, charcoal roasted corn on the cod, pad thai, freshly squeezed orange juice, noodles, star shaped burgers and barbequed fish all available for 25 cents. In what little available space is left between the shops and the roads are semi-permanent stalls that sell all travellers' wants; from cheap strappy sun wear to endless displays of $4 CDs. Restaurants ply their trade as much by the latest Hollywood film that is showing on their 14 television screens as the food that they sell.
Later as night begins to settle it becomes the New Orleans of Asia. Strong beer combined with super-heated capitalism and a dash of corruption has nubile Thai women selling beer and liquor out of a flower power painted VW vans. Small stalls spring up selling margaritas and white russians for those that can't make the 20 meters till the next bar without further intoxication. Beer in hand, like an "Access all areas" badge, one can move from club to bar on the assumption that if you bought one you're likely to buy another.
While this was obviously not Thailand proper, we relished the moment, conversation bubbling out of us, glad not to have to cross the culture divide for just a few days. We were drunk on the elation of how easy everything was. We felt giddy just like when you return from a two-week camping trip to rediscover hot water and clean linen.
Very soon the reality dawns; we did not travel half way across the world to be cocooned by the familiar. So we left Bangkok with still a lot to test and taste; the cinema with reclining Lazy Boys that serves beer and food, Thai boxing and excellent international cuisine. We reconciled ourselves, knowing we would be back at least three times, as Bangkok forms the axis for travelling around the South East Asian mainland.
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