As a rural kid we have limited opportunity to do.amy collection like stamps and coins which were popular in that era. Actually given the chance we had no resources too on the most hopeless situation we collected experiences like going trekking and catching fishes and spiders One of the hobby we picked up.in.the urban places was the collection of cigarette boxes picked up from.yhe streets in my case I was luckier spent my after school.hours in.Campbell Street where Sun cinema was Right behind the shop.So.i collected could bind them into stacks of hundreds We could play a strike game having them lined up in a flimsy sand bund We could do exchanges to enhance our collection Boxes from.the earlier days using foldable match box design While time went by they introduced the full cartoon box style These were no good for our hobby Then came the change to America cigarettes such as Lucky Strikes where packaging were in collapsible paper packs We had our timed with the Players Rough Riders and the Double Aces

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Cigarettes then we're of standard length The first change was the introduction of a filter on the holding tip from.there came the menthol additives to give that cool feelings I cannot remember when the normal Cigarettes length was extended to prolong the smokable time per stick That gave birth to the term king size Oh the standard packing was 14 sticks to each box Helping consumer or customers to budget or limit smokers to a quota of 2 sticks per day Of there were other offering large size 20 sticks to a box The retailers normally used those packed in 50 sticks tin Large consumers could peek them for their use at home and retailers could cater to buyers who needed a couple of sticks only