A woman uses a vending machine that dispenses pre-lit cigarettes for a penny, 1931.
A woman uses a vending machine that dispenses pre-lit cigarettes for a penny, 1931.
I wonder how many places burned down before they stopped the pre-lit part.
48Probably no more than would have burned down anyway from everyone smoking inside them.
34They had incinerators in women’s bathrooms for burning sanitary pads, before tampons came around.
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Safety was their number one priority, which is why they used plenty of asbestos inside each machine.
32And in the filters.
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"Have you seen this"
10/10 marketing effort
Life really was that easy back then huh (except for that whole racism thing)
33except for that whole racism thing
And great depression thing ... and then the world war 2 thing ... and the Spanish flu and world war 1 only about a decade before.
You can imagine a future person looking at a video of someone with a fidget spinner and thinking "life really was easy back then."
Every generation has different luxuries and problems.
23I dunno... I can look back at native Americans before whitey showed up or further back to hunter-gatherers and think they had it pretty easy compared to now. They didn't spend 8+ hours a day, every day working at a thing that's meaningless; they didn't have mortgages or bills; they didn't have traffic; or ads, or any number of the dumb ass things we've made harder in the effort of making things easier.
I'd take a lack of medicine and the possibility of being eaten by wild animals over all the modern bullshit that makes it impossible to just live.
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How absolutely insane. I love it.
24What a time to be alive!
21Things are looking up! This Great Depression is going to ebb any day, and then it's smooth sailing for humanity!
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I can't quite tell because the picture pixelizes quickly when zoomed, but that cigarette looks like a mostly smoked butt.
12I don't think it is because it would have been unfiltered back then.
14I did consider that. I think she's just got most of it hidden in her hand somehow
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The shade from her finger makes it appear shorter. The full length can be judged by the image on the machine.
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5It reminds me of an aloo gobi vending machine I saw the other day.
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My guess is she held it up for the picture not just got it from the machine.
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My first thought was the little Black Cat firecrackers, which sounds way more fun than pre-lit smokes
11Pre-lit firecrackers, how chaotic
6Somebody told me once that cigarette paper contains what is basically gunpowder, which is why it burns continually and makes it burn quickly when smoking it. I don’t know if that’s true, but maybe there’s a connection there.
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I'd bet Snoop Dogg would love one of these.
8Wouldn't he prefer one that dispensed lit joints?
4I'm sure that's the first thing he'd fill it with. His personal joint roller would probably be able to go on vacation once in awhile too.
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