The original Newport had a white filter and a hint of mint both were gone in 1969 and thus the white filter was replaced by a standard filter. The Newport Classic full flavor cigarettes were promoted for many years as a cigarette that allows you to “Enjoy a full flavor menthol, without drowning out pure tobacco taste.” In the mid 1980s, Newport began an advertising campaign that courted African Americans in urban areas. In two years, Newports became the fifth most popular cigarette on the market. 3 A 2004 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the percentage of teen Newport smokers doubled between 1989 and 1996. Researcher Karen Gerlach indicated that Newports made the most significant progress with the Hispanic and White American teen markets in those years. 4 A 1998 Massachusetts Department of Public Health report indicated that Newports alongside unfiltered Camel cigarettes contained the highest levels of nicotine in cigarettes on the market. In the following six years, Lorillard Tobacco increased the amount of nicotine in Newports by 10%.

Varieties edit

Newport cigarettes come in several varieties Full Flavor, Medium, and Lights. In the United States, effective June 2010, “Medium” and “Lights” will be re branded into “Blue” and “Gold” respectively. On the box, the words “Menthol Box” for shorts and “Menthol Box 100s” for 100s were replaced simply with “Cigarettes”. Each variety is sold in 85mm soft packs (king size), 80mm hard packs (box), and 100mm soft and hard packs. They are available in standard packs of 20 cigarettes, as well as the more unusual 25s, containing 25 cigarettes. Prior to the signing of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement in the late 1990s, they were sold in packs of ten as well.

Due to the new FDA Tobacco Regulations, the terms “Full Flavor”, “Medium”, “Light”, “Mild”, and “Ultra Light” have been discontinued. New names for Newport Cigarettes are as follows

• Newport Box (Full Flavor)
• Newport Box 100s (Full Flavor 100s)
• Newport Smooth Select (Full Flavor)
• Newport Smooth Select 100s (Full Flavor 100s)
• Newport Menthol Blue (Medium)
• Newport Menthol Blue 100s (Medium 100s)
• Newport Menthol Gold (Light)
• Newport Menthol Gold 100s (Light 100s)
• Newport Non Menthol
• Newport Non Menthol 100s
• Newport Non Menthol Gold
• Newport Non Menthol Gold 100s

Non menthol Newports in Full Flavor and Lights were sold in United States during the mid to late 1990s, possibly as late as 2002 however they were discontinued until November 2010 in which they re released them in order to keep up with the non menthol cigarette smokers in America. The packs are identical in design to standard menthol Newports except the turquoise colored area was red on the Full Flavors and mustard yellow on the Lights. Newport Slim 120s (introduced 1998), Newport “Stripes”, and Newport “M Blend” were other varieties that have also been discontinued.

In some Latin American markets, such as tourist areas of the Dominican Republic, British American Tobacco has released some limited edition varieties and outer packagings including

• Newport Silver (menthol ultra lights
• Newport Freezing Point (10 & 20 count boxes)
• Newport Midnight Blast

Lawsuits and criticism edit

A lawsuit against the Lorillard Tobacco Company alleged that in the late 1960s, company vans were used to make regular trips to housing projects where free Newport cigarettes were given to children and babies. 5 Evidence showed that the deceased plaintiff died of lung cancer, but that she started smoking at 9 years old after receiving free Newport cigarettes near the playground. 6 7 The Supreme Court of Massachusetts upheld $35 million of damages against Lorillard Tobacco Company while reversing other issues of damages. 8

See also edit

• Kool
• List of additives in cigarettes
• List of cigarette smoke constituents
• Menthol cigarette
• Tobacco smoking

References edit

Coffee and cigarettes – wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cigarettes online Blog Archive Oasis – cigarettes & alcohol lyrics

Filmed in 1993 as the short Coffee and Cigarettes Somewhere in California, and won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. 2 In this segment musicians Iggy Pop and Tom Waits smoke cigarettes to celebrate that they quit smoking, drink some coffee and make awkward conversation.

Those Things’ll Kill Ya edit

Joseph Rigano and Vinny Vella have a conversation over coffee about the dangers of smoking. The silent Vinny Vella Jr. also appears to beg his father for money, which is given in exchange for affection, which is not provided.

Ren e edit

Ren e French (played by herself) drinks coffee while looking through a gun magazine. E. J. Rodr guez plays the waiter, who is eager to be of service. He initially approaches her to serve more coffee, to which she reacts by saying “I had the right color, right temperature, it was just right”. After that, he comes back several times, hesitates, and leaves. He seems intent on striking a conversation with her.

No Problem edit

Alex Descas and Isaach De Bankol are a couple of friends who meet and talk over some coffee and cigarettes. Alex has no problems, or so he answers to Isaach’s repeated questioning. At the end of the scene, Alex takes out a pair of dice and rolls three sets of doubles. It could be assumed that Alex Descas has an excessive gambling problem but to him it is not a problem because of what he can roll. Notice he doesn’t roll the dice in front of his friend.

Cousins edit

Cate Blanchett plays herself and a fictional and non famous cousin named Shelly, whom she meets over some coffee in the lounge of a hotel. There is no smoking in the lounge, as the waiter informs Shelly (but not until Cate is gone). Shelly tells Cate about her boyfriend, Lee, who is in a band. She describes the music style as hard industrial, similar to the band Iggy describes. Cate tells Shelly she looks forward to meeting “Lou” someday.

Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil edit

Features Jack and Meg White of the band The White Stripes having some coffee and cigarettes. They play themselves, although the scene seems to perpetuate the band’s former pretense that they are indeed siblings. Jack shows Meg his Tesla coil that he says he built himself and waxes intellectual on the achievements of Nikola Tesla. In the beginning, Jack seems upset that Meg doesn’t share his excitement, and it takes Meg some coaxing to get Jack to agree to show Meg his Tesla Coil. He introduces the line, “Nikola Tesla perceived the earth to be a conductor of acoustical resonance.” Cinqu Lee plays a waiter in this segment. In the end, the coil breaks, and Meg and the Waiter offer suggestions as to why it might be broken. Finally Meg says something that Jack seems to agree to, and he leaves to “go home and check it out”. Meg clinks her coffee cup to produce a ringing noise, pauses, says “Earth is a conductor of acoustical resonance” and clinks her coffee cup to produce the noise again she looks pensively out into the distance before a cut to black. Early during the segment, “Down on the Street” by The Stooges is played in the background.

Cousins? edit

British actors Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan have a conversation over some tea. (Coogan offers Molina a French cigarette, but Molina saves his for later.) Molina is a very enthusiastic fan of Coogan’s, who contrarily is very uninterested at their meeting and barely manages to hide this. Molina excitedly shares with him research he came across, learning that they are distant cousins, and proposes a friendship or show business project to capitalize on this. Steve Coogan still remains evasive, lightening up only when an attractive female fan recognizes him. He later tries to make up excuses to keep from ever having to hear from Alfred Molina again, and then clumsily tries to reverse this when he overhears Molina get a call from good friend Spike Jonze. But it is too late and Molina, disappointed, leaves Coogan with the bill. Although the scene is set in LA, the segment was actually shot in Brooklyn at Galapagos, Williamsburg.

Delirium edit

Hip hop artists (and cousins) GZA and RZA of the Wu Tang Clan drink naturally caffeine free herbal tea and have a conversation with the waiter, Bill Murray, about the dangers of caffeine and nicotine. During this conversation GZA makes a reference to how he would drink lots of coffee before going to bed so his dreams would “whip by” similar to the camera shots at the Indy 500, very similar to the same reference that Steven Wright did in the first segment. Murray requests that GZA and RZA keep his identity secret, while GZA and RZA inform Murray about nontraditional methods to relieve his smoker’s hack.

Champagne edit

William “Bill” Rice and Taylor Mead spend their coffee break having a nostalgic conversation, whilst Janet Baker singing “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” from Mahler’s R ckert Lieder appears from nowhere. William Rice repeats Jack White’s line, “Nikola Tesla perceived the earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance.” It is possible to interpret the relevance of this line to the constant recurrent themes throughout the seemingly unconnected segments.

Reception edit

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has a 65% ‘fresh’ rating for the film based on 122 reviews, with the critical consensus “Episodes vary in quality, but overall this talky film is quirkily engaging.” 3

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