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- From: d_smith@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Dylan Smith)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Those inscrutable cigarette adverts
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.154605.12983@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:46:05 GMT
- References: <21021@acorn.co.uk> <1993Jan15.085904.25182@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <7220@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- In article <7220@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk writes:
-
- >|> This reminds me of when I went down to visit a friend at Southampton Uni.
- >|> In the Student shop there they sell a brand of cigarettes called, quite
- >|> simply "Death". They come in a black box with Skulls and Crossbones all
- >|> 'round it, covered in messages like "Smoking kills you", "If you smoke,
- >|> give up; if not, don't start!"
- >|>
- >|> Strikes me as being quite a neat product - however, I have yet to see
- >|> them anywhere other than Southampton. Anyone else run across these, or
- >|> know who makes 'em? (And, more to the point, why?)
-
- They are sold in the UWE union shop. Not being a smoker, I have not
- examined them.
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