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and spiritual comfort. In the 1890s, Woodbine cigarettes were offered at a margin of 19%, with a possible maximum discount of 10%. In the United Kingdom, the brand was sold at very low advertising costs and total expenditure on sales promotion for all cigarettes and tobacco brands in 1925 was only
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played a man who engaged in numerous activities (including waiting for the bus or setting up a beach chair) and would always end in misery. He then would grab a packet of Woodbines from his pocket and light one, followed by a happy tune and a man reading the line
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war series include several characters smoking Woodbines (often until so short as to burn their lips), Landsborough using the popularity of these cigarettes among British soldiers especially of lower class
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The ads were never played on TV however, as all television commercials for cigarettes were banned on 1 August 1965. A jingle was also made to promote Woodbine in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
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version was launched in the United Kingdom in 1948, but was discontinued in 1988. Woodbines came in four different packs: 5 cigarettes, 10 cigarettes, 20 cigarettes and 50 cigarettes.
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The intricate nineteenth century packet design remained in use until the mid 1960s. Although Wills changed the packaging, Woodbine sales continued to drop.
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Bleues. After switching, Lennon mocked the use of Woodbines during a documentary film that chronicled The Beatles' first visit to America.
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was originally fond of smoking Woodbines while he was a student and into the early 1960s, before switching to smoking the French-made
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cigarettes, the brand was cheap and popular in the early 20th century with the working-class, as well as with army men during the
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An old pack of British Woodbine cigarettes, photographed at the Musée Somme 1916 of Albert (Somme), France
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W.D. & H.O. Wills and the development of the UK tobacco Industry: 1786-1965
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always smoked Woodbines on stage and also mentioned them frequently in his act.
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by troops on the Western Front to whom he handed out cigarettes along with
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Woodbines were the oft-mentioned cigarette of choice for Tristan Farnon (
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series of novels and related TV series, old aged pensioner character
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
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In the 1960s, a few television ads were made in which
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