T206 Polar Bear back observation

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Posted By: Don

Barry,

I agree that could have also been a reason but if true, wouldn't be consistent across all brands.

Lenox, Uzit, Old Mill, American Beauty, Cycle, and Piedmont represent their packs fairly accurately by duplicating the script.

Broadleaf, EPGD, Hindu, Sovereign, Drum, Carolina Brights, Sweet Caporal, and Tolstoi, look nothing like their packs.

Also, there's no reason the Polar Bear brand couldn't have been portrayed fairly accurately with regular blue script printing instead of solid color "inverse" printing. The other "accurate" brands only tried to duplicate the script, not the whole pack. It seems like that would have been cheaper and easier to print Polar Bear that way also.

Plus, all the other brands are cigarettes. Polar Bear is the only scrap brand in T206. Hence the staining issue.

That, plus the T205 staining observation led me to think it could have been intentional to hide the anticipated tobacco staining. In T205, that wasn't an option because of the new bio/stats backs.