Tuesday 29 July 2008

First Annual Award for Cigarette Packaging Excellence

So here we are again for the first time at the First Annual Award for Cigarette Packaging Excellence. Give it up for the awesomeness that is the advertising genius of the death dealing cigarette companies!


First off, an honourable mention goes to... Skydancer Menthol's!Not only do they taste like a cool mountain stream, they have one pictured right there on the front of the box! Way to go guys.

Kamel Reds came in at the bottom of the pack (get it? Pack... like a cigarette pack... ok shut up now). They have a wonderfully... eye catching redness about them. Yes... very good.
Moving right along, the lovely Sandia. They come in red, blue, green, light blue, light green... they just come in a fuck load of colours ok? They do have some nice mountains on them though, so they have that going for them.
Seneca... how the fuck do you say that? I don't know, do you? Who cares, they have more pretty mountains done in silver foil and that's really what we care about.
Desert Sun has the next pack of coolness. We like the cactus in the setting desert sun. Enough said.
The next is an old favorite in joke circles I'm sure, you know the name... Smokin' Joes! They have the most garish packaging we've ever seen and boy! Don't the kids just love 'em!
Tucson have a very nice look to them. Very Texas Ranger if you know what I mean (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). Confused? Well that's ok. I don't get it either.
This is a little disappointing as Salem brand cigarettes didn't quite make it to first place. Still it does show that I'm not playing favorites here, they really do just have an awesome pack. Let's see what a pack of Crumples looks like huh? Yeah, that's right, Salems are the almost winner!
And the winner is.... Nat Shermans! Sure is lucky we didn't judge by name I suppose. Either way, they have the best pack around and the cigarettes that are held within are just as classy. Black with a gold foil filter! How good is that? Pretty fuckin' good is at least how good that is. I'm going to get some.
Ok, we do have one last treat for you. The "Most likely to kill you with just a single one of their unspeakable death sticks!" award. We found these hiding away in the back and at a massive 20.5mg per cigarette, they're sure to knock the air out of you. Not sure which end though. May just bust a hole right in the side of your rib cage. So you know, these are about twice the strength of our sponsored Davidoff classics. Hard hitting, you bet your peace-pipe smoking indians they are!
I hope you have all enjoyed this glimps into the wonderful world of cigarette packaging. Take care folks!

-Salem
How about we take a 5 minute break... smoke if you got 'em.

1 comment:

Crumples said...

Salem and I are so totally getting a carton of those bitch arse lung puncturer smokes, also the cool ones that are all black and suave. who says smoking doesn't make you look cool? hu? WHO SAYS? WHOOOOO SAAAAAYS!?!? eh-hem, yeah, who?