Automat Vends Lighted Cigarette (Feb, 1931)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1931
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1931
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Tags: smoking
Automat Vends Lighted Cigarette
A NEW automatic device recently introduced by a London manufacturer not only delivers a fag when you put a penny in the slot, but lights it as well. The fag delivered by the cigarette automat is lighted by means of electricity and does the work within five seconds after you insert the penny in the slot. The photo below shows a young lady receiving a lighted cigarette from the machine.
HA HA!! What could possibly go wrong with this?
Comment by Steve — August 31, 2008 @ 8:47 am
Perhaps a newer version could be built that would also smoke the cigarette, saving the wear and tear on the smoker’s lungs and body?
Comment by Eliyahu — August 31, 2008 @ 8:54 am
I’m surprized that even in London, they used improper English, Shouldn’t it read Lit Cigarette and not Lighted Cigarette?
Comment by Al Bear — August 31, 2008 @ 11:44 am
I do not believe the magazine nor the writer were in London, they were just writing on a machine they read a press release on, the machine just happened to be produced by a London manufacturer, probably.
Comment by Alan — August 31, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Great idea, would probably reduce the amount people smoked if you had to find the change every time you wanted a fag, and stop your mates poncing one off you.
Comment by Absolutejagauar — September 1, 2008 @ 12:40 am
As seen in Gomez’s pocket on the old ‘The Addams Family’ TV series.
In the episode with the Russian guests, one of them accepts
a cigar he planned to smoke later.
Comment by jayessell — September 1, 2008 @ 8:13 am