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Posted By: <b>Richard Dwyer</b><p>Up at the top it says:<br /><br />EVERYONE COLLECTED CIGARET PREMIUMS<br /><br />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)<br /><br /><img src="http://rdwyer.250free.com/CIMG1006.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>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: <b>jackgoodman</b><p>I'd like to know which issue, if anyone knows. Thanks.

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Posted By: <b>jackgoodman</b><p>Bumping this in the hopes someone knows where this originally appeared. Thanks.

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Posted By: <b>Richard Dwyer</b><p>Jack Goodman: I don't want mine. Maybe a trade for something?<br /><br />richarddwyer@sbcglobal.net<br /><br />edited to add email address.

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Posted By: <b>J Levine</b><p>This was indeed from a Life magazine, July 26th, 1954.<br /><br />Joshua

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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>Thanks Josh, Now I don't have to dig through my closet looking for it.