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Pack design matters as well

TWENTY GRAND - Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company 1934 Twenty Grand Cigarette Pack, above two photos

The company's tobacco initiative was designed to help reduce the almost half a million deaths attributed to smoking each year in the U.S

This in turn led to new levels of sophistication in the niche marketing aimed at selling to African-American consumers a group whose relative inexperience with being courted by business left them uniquely susceptible to the power of targeted advertising

Where the 2016 photo showed a man who looked genuinely beaten down, the 2025 version offered something almost stylish a well-dressed man taking a philosophical drag, as though world-weariness had been elevated to an aesthetic choice