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  1. 11-17-2015, 05:15 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by allusred View Post
    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
    Last edited by stonecutter2; 11-17-2015 at 05:19 PM.
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