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[gotham-syren.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine that one of those I Love Lucy cartons of cigarettes would go for a bundle on eBay...

[etinterrapax.livejournal.com]

Smoke up, Johnny!

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Who the heck was Johnny? Just some random theater usher?

[evillart.livejournal.com]

Johnny was their advertising mascot and he's supposed to be a bellman. He would call out "Call for Philip Morris" in their radio and tv adverts.

This ad for Philip Morris starred Lucille Ball, Desi Arnez and features Johnny at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcaibMaZAuk

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Not a kid. Small sized man who played Philip Morris's mascot.

[miss-peabody.livejournal.com]

merry christmas, billy. i got you some emphysema!

[greenraven.livejournal.com]

and some lung cancer, too!

[aj-hyena.livejournal.com]

And asthma! Don't forget asthma!

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

"While visions of black lungs danced in their heads..."

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

"He whistled and coughed and then gasped for air
And his oxygen bottle sat by his chair.
He didn't shout out, or sing out a note -
He just couldn't speak with that hole in his throat."

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

The cartons I gave my Grandpa when I was a kid weren't this snazzy.

icon love!

[misstia]

DRINK! FECK! GIRLS!

[jpowell180.livejournal.com]

No wonder Lucille Ball's voice was so scratchy!