T216 Kotton - The Meaning of "Never Go Out"

[packs]

It means that the cigarettes won't be blown out by the wind. Rolling tobacco is meant to stay lit, because while you're smoking outside it gets windy. If your cigarette is constantly going out, you're going to be annoyed, especially if you're using matches to smoke. "Never Go Out" implies you only need one match.

[mybuddyinc]

Got to go with this:

1) the smokes never go out (i.e., they stay lit)

I roll my owe, mainly American Spirit. Most all cigarettes and rolling paper (i.e. Tops) today have incendiary rings that keep them burning, pretty much no matter what. Back in the day, rolling paper was just thin paper. Like Am. Spirit plain paper. Plain paper will go out after a while, but I'm just a quick puffer, so it usually doesn't bother me.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by packs

It means that the cigarettes won't be blown out by the wind. Rolling tobacco is meant to stay lit, because while you're smoking outside it gets windy. If your cigarette is constantly going out, you're going to be annoyed, especially if you're using matches to smoke. "Never Go Out" implies you only need one match.

agreed...gotta be this! otherwise a description of my life...as I "never go out" anymore!!!!!

[CW]

Also voting for #1.

Another question would be... what do they mean by "not in a trust"?

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by CW

Also voting for #1.

Another question would be... what do they mean by "not in a trust"?

i would presume "not in a trust" means kotton was an independent tobacco manufacturer...not affiliated with a conglomerate as the t206 brands were. promotion of the little guy maybe?

[packs]

Yeah I agree. If you were part of trust that meant you had dominated the industry and your product would probably be inferior due to limited competition and no need to be quality.

[Eric72]

A lit cigarette, when unattended, used to burn all the way down to the filter. While this is no longer the case, due to one of the (insert ridiculous number here) additives in cigarettes today, there was a time when they were little more than tobacco and wrapping paper.

As a brief aside, folding a lit cigarette into a match book was once used during wartime as a time delay ignition switch. The movie Stalag 17 offers a visual example of this. So does the TV show NCIS, which is of a much more recent vintage.

Regarding the original question, I believe that the tobacco card ad probably refers to their cigarette having a consistent burn, without it inconveniently "going out."

Re-lit tobacco has a distinctively different flavor, in which the ignition of carbon makes the experience much harsher.

Hope this helps a little.

Best regards,

Eric

[CW]

Thanks, Pete (and packs with the follow up), for the info on "not in a trust"!