cigarette advertisement 1940s Ronald Reagan Chesterfield advertisement, Vintage 1949 LUCKY STRIKE Cigarettes

On the eve of the twentieth century, the accelerating habit of men and women smoking cigarettes the world over produced the first widely used, portable accoutrement since the seventeenth-century snuffbox: the cigarette holder

Children and infants are particularly vulnerable because they often crawl on floors and touch surfaces where these toxic residues have accumulated, leading to a higher risk of exposure

It marks something as dangerous, transgressive, to be avoided

Carrying illegal drugs means going against the law

At the low end, it was estimated that each of the cartons would sell for about $80 in California meaning the total value of all of the cigarettes was just shy of $59,920