Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 11:21:40 +0300

From: Matti Pitk{l{ mp54978[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTA.FI

Subject: Cigarette brands. Help, please!



Dear ADS-L subscribers:



I am a student in the department of translatology in the University of

Tampere, Finland. I am currrently preparing a "reference-list" of

cigarette brands sold in the USA as my term paper for a course called

"Power, Pride & Politics - American English 2". For the course all

students must prepare a list of terms, names, vocabulary (...) in some

spesific area (...) of American English. I chose to make a list of

cigarette brands, American or imported, that can be purchased in the USA=

,

including in the list information about the social, ethnic, age-related,=



sex-related, class-related or any other connotations or meanings that

American people connect with these brands.

For this I ask your help. What brands are there? Are there brands that=



carry special meanings, and which brands could be seen as "neutral" -

suitable for any smoker?



Here is a list of some brands that I have found in American newspaper

and magazine advertisements, some of them are American, some British (GB=

),

some international or of unknown origin (?):



Prince

Marlboro

Dunhill (GB)

Rothmans (GB)

Basic

Montclair

Kool

Camel

Chesterfield

Pall Mall

Winston

Salem

Lucky Strike

Philip Morris

John Player Special (GB)

Kent

Benson & Hedges (GB)

Newport

Silk Cut (?)

Barclay (?)

Boston (?)

Colt (?)

Cartier (?)

L&M (?)

Death (?)

Peter Stuyvesant (?)

YSL, Yves Saint-Laurent (?)

Gitanes (French)

Gauloises (French)



--

Mr. Matti Pitkala * ...a lugly whizzling tournedos, the Boraborayel=

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mp54978[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uta.fi * blohablasting tegolhuts up to tetties and ru=

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