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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 356888, member: 59"]And I think that "sometime" might be closer than you think.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just compared a standard deck of playing cards to current day filtered cigarettes. The top to bottom comparison is remarkably close. To me, that means that if the box was for loose cigs, the cigs were assumed to be filtered. I'm not all that up on cigarette history, so I don't know when filters were added, but I would not be surprised to find that the date was mid-century or so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 356888, member: 59"]And I think that "sometime" might be closer than you think. I just compared a standard deck of playing cards to current day filtered cigarettes. The top to bottom comparison is remarkably close. To me, that means that if the box was for loose cigs, the cigs were assumed to be filtered. I'm not all that up on cigarette history, so I don't know when filters were added, but I would not be surprised to find that the date was mid-century or so.[/QUOTE]
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