Interesting find - Ne1 Know where this came from?

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

Up at the top it says:

EVERYONE COLLECTED CIGARET PREMIUMS

Giving a hint of their later skill in promotional matters, some cigaret companies in the 1880's began distributing pictures in each package, causing a collector's craze that had swept the country by 1900. By 1915 almost every important person in the U.S. had been pictured on a cigaret card. Some collections have been huge: a Boston gentleman recently confessed to owning 23,000 cards. Cigaret-makers helped blaze another advertising trail: they were among the first to discover selling value of a device that now seems second nature -- a pretty girl (right)

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

It came out of I believe an issue of Life magazine...I've got it somewhere, I just don't remember which issue it was in and it's buried in my closet somewhere.

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Posted By: jackgoodman

I'd like to know which issue, if anyone knows. Thanks.

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Posted By: jackgoodman

Bumping this in the hopes someone knows where this originally appeared. Thanks.

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

Jack Goodman: I don't want mine. Maybe a trade for something?

richarddwyer@sbcglobal.net

edited to add email address.

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Posted By: J Levine

This was indeed from a Life magazine, July 26th, 1954.

Joshua

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Thanks Josh, Now I don't have to dig through my closet looking for it.