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Originally Posted by
droy1958
Maybe 30/40's through 1980's????....

Only item I'm sure of is the Lucky Strike box. The slogan that stuck was "Lucky strike green went to war."
No Idea why that colour was needed for the war effort, other than maybe a paint colour used in the Pacific.
Any way, the green never came back.\ after WWII ended.
Luckies at the time were sold in both tins and cardboard cartons.
The Raleigh and Chesterfield packages could certainly be from anytime in the 1940's.
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Originally Posted by
allusred
Only item I'm sure of is the Lucky Strike box. The slogan that stuck was "Lucky strike green went to war."
No Idea why that colour was needed for the war effort, other than maybe a paint colour used in the Pacific.
Any way, the green never came back.\ after WWII ended.
Luckies at the time were sold in both tins and cardboard cartons.
The Raleigh and Chesterfield packages could certainly be from anytime in the 1940's.
The box states it's a classic reproduction of the Lucky Strike green package, so that's repro 
But yeah, Luckies were green *until the war.
*EDIT: Found a snopes article all about Luckies during WWII. Apparently they changed from green to white packages, claiming a war need for green dye, but probably was a marketing thing.
Lucky Strike Logo Color Change : snopes.com
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Originally Posted by
stonecutter2
The box states it's a classic reproduction of the Lucky Strike green package, so that's repro
But yeah, Luckies were green *until the war.
*EDIT: Found a snopes article all about Luckies during WWII. Apparently they changed from green to white packages, claiming a war need for green dye, but probably was a marketing thing.
Lucky Strike Logo Color Change : snopes.com
Haviing read the above, concentrated a bit more... have to admit that I really can't recall Lucky Strikes coming in a cardboard package at any time.
Nor can I remember seeing cartons of Lucky Strikes, back when they were green.
It's the tins I remember most my Grandfather kept a stack of them in his Humidor along with some Cigars and pipe tobaccos.
My Father smoked Chesterfields and Cigars. Only memories of my Grandfather smoking are of Pipes and rarely cigarettes or Between The Acts.
Tho I know he had some Perfectos and Panatellas in that Humidor.