A King Soopers at at East Ninth Avenue and Corona Street in Denver got a little bad press this week after reports emerged that it was upselling at the checkout line. What was the product cashiers were asking with their groceries? Not Mentos, Soaps Today or batteries, but cancer sticks. That’s right, cigarettes.
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Lucky Strike Means WTF
By 7.18.06
Back in the 50’s, these Lucky strike stop motion ads were almost as pervasive as smoke in a maternity ward.
The News Wins a Kosher Kitchen
By 7.7.06
• Ebay prez pledges to get rid of those 95 cent items with $50 shipping costs. [Ebay]
Won’t Big Tobacco Please Think of the Children?
By 5.24.06
Over at the Cancer Blog, they are talking about how the Tobacco Industry spends over 12.4 billion dollars a year on advertising. Pretty big number. Channeling Mrs. Lovejoy, they cry out, “Won’t someone please think of the children?” Apparently, the fact that the rolling eyeballs of a toddler might accidentally stray across a tobacco ad in his father’s copy of Maxim will turn that toddler into a chain-huffing smoker.
Superman Hates, Kills Smokers
By 4.17.06
For your Monday Morning Bemusement, Superman takes on Nick O’Teen, insidious Irish personification of underage smoking.
Lucky Strikes Means Fine Tobacco
By 4.6.06
Another brilliant spot from the golden age of tobacco advertisement. So firm, so round, so fully packed! Lucky Strikes got back!
Fred Flintstone: “Winston Tastes Good Like A Cigarette Should”
By 3.27.06
Ah, the halcyon days of advertising, where Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble relax with a refreshing Winston cigarette while their wives slavishly toil.
World’s Largest Collection of Cigs
By 3.21.06
We’ve never quite gotten the knack of smoking cigarettes. While friends of ours twirl a zippo across their knuckles like a small blue steel ball spouting flame, then clamp down upon a smoke with the effortless, anti-authoritative sneer of James Dean, the best we can manage is a fag prissily inserted between our pursed lips. When we inhale, we inevitably start coughing, the cigarette goes tumbling out of our mouths and burns its way through our pants. Next thing we know, we’re applying salve to our groins for the next 72 hours.
NYC eSmoke Shoppers Burn City, Bloomberg Seeks Back-taxes
By 3.8.06
Thousands of New York City consumers who purchased cigarettes from eSmokes.com will be forced to collectively cough up $33 million in unpaid taxes.
FedEx Clamps Down On Online Cigarette Retailers
By 2.8.06
Bad news for you Internet-shopping tobacco monkeys out there: Fed-Ex is clamping down on online tobacco merchants.
Consumerist Research Team Assemble: Buying Cigarettes in New York
By 1.24.06
Since today is turning out to be one of those days where we lay out all our shortcomings and ask you to help us fix them, we’ll see our own bad credit and raise ourselves one addiction. It seems that Bloomberg is threatening to raise cigarette taxes again, which would bring the tax total to $3.50, or more than most people pay for cigarettes in their entirety in most states.
