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The upper hopper, painted red, is intended to hold the tobacco, which is dosed and placed on the paper strip through an ingenious internal system operated by a front lever

While some manufacturers occasionally employed small linear barcodes like Code 128 for internal tracking purposes, their use was inconsistent across different manufacturers, and it was not designed to meet the requirements for comprehensive, globally standardized traceability or anti-illicit trade measures

Original full-page color print ad, 1961

Almost half of the participants were former cigarette smokers, 21 percent were current cigarette smokers, and 14 percent used other tobacco products