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Death Cigarrettes

  • 11-04-2002 2:22am
    #1
    Yurmasyurda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone seen them? The package is unbelievable, I saw them today by a friend of mine and I must say it's advertising as it should be!!

    Here's a link to what the packets look like...

    http://www.denison.co.uk/denisonwww/clients_enlight.htm

    The wording on them is excellent... one example "Smoking does not make you sexy, stylish or sophisticated. It kills you. We are not selling a pack of lies, we are selling a pack of cigarrettes."

    If products were advertised properly like this, the world would be a better place.

    What do you think?


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  • #2
    wiredtothemoon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭wiredtothemoon


    used to see them occasionally about 4-5 years ago in some shops, i've never seen anyone with a pack tho...although a friend of mine says that when she was in school some people used to smoke them to be "cooler" than the people who smoked normal cigs.
    hardly surprising that they never gained any popularity.....


  • #3
    Bard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    I remember those when they came out and am a little surprised that they're back... are they on general sale or restricted to a few "specialist" stores... (like the wonderful Dr. Pepper is ;) ), eh?

    It'd be interesting to try them, just to say that I did... I guess...


  • #4
    FreaK_BrutheR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭FreaK_BrutheR


    They're very old now. Used to get them in Derry when i was like 18/19 (i'm 27 3/4). I used to be cool and smoke them. They're nothing more than Marlboro in a "cool" packet.

    **** it like.... you know fags kill u... they should come in cool packets so at least we don't look as stupid when we're smokin like.


  • #5
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    Originally posted by FreaK_BrutheR
    They're very old now. Used to get them in Derry when i was like 18/19 (i'm 27 3/4). I used to be cool and smoke them. They're nothing more than Marlboro in a "cool" packet.

    **** it like.... you know fags kill u... they should come in cool packets so at least we don't look as stupid when we're smokin like.

    i remember them from when i used to read voz about 12 years ago


  • #6
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users Posts: 5,227 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    I remember them from about 7 years ago. Does Dennis Leary have something to do with the company that makes them? I remember hearing something like that at the time, it's more likely he was quoted as endorsing their product and/or event.


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  • #7
    Giblet
    Registered Users Posts: 11,977 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    Maybe they were trying to get a cult following!
    Dr.pepper UGHHH tastes like liquid blueberry muffin. MUFFINS ARE MUFFINS I DONT WANT TO DRINK EM!


  • #8
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Originally posted by FreaK_BrutheR
    They're very old now. Used to get them in Derry when i was like 18/19 (i'm 27 3/4). I used to be cool and smoke them. They're nothing more than Marlboro in a "cool" packet.

    **** it like.... you know fags kill u... they should come in cool packets so at least we don't look as stupid when we're smokin like.

    And that's the problem. Kids see these packets as cool and go buy them instead of other cigs or even if they don't smoke. Just like when the media spread rumours of what Marilyn Manson did at his last gig. ("He boiled and ate a baby ahh!!!"). They forget that every 14-17 year old in the country goes "Cool!! I'll buy a ticket!"

    :rolleyes:


  • #9
    Enygma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭Enygma


    Denis Leary did a bit that was quite like the whole 'Death' thing. He said you could make a cigarrette called 'Tumors' in a black box with a skull and crossbones on them and you'd still have smokers lined up around the block to buy 'em saying things like "I hear you get a tumor as soon as you take on pull"

    Funny bastid :)

    Yeah, I smoked 'em. The funnies thing was you could get
    'Death Lights'!
    It's like "These will give you an even slower and more prolonged death".

    hehe, glad I'm still of them, I can mock smokers now :D

    Mmmmmm.....Dr. Pepper. I think it tastes like that sherbet you could get years ago with the two flavours and the stick, and you mixed them up in water. Can you still get those?


  • #10
    Chief
    Registered Users Posts: 450 ✭✭Chief


    Double Dips with the infamous Swizzle Stick! :)
    Damn right you can still get them.. and their still as yummy as ever.. and stinjy as fúck with the fizz :|

    nyom all the same!


  • #11
    lazer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭lazer


    i remember we use to be able to get them in the "Athy Market, Athy, Co.Kidare" when i was about 13/14.. seven years ago now?

    its held on Sunday mornings..

    they also have other stuff that might catch ur attention, fireworks, tvs, knives, thousands of cigs, and pretty much anything one can fit on a market square..

    :D

    jx


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