• Sundray@lemmus.org
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      3 days ago

      I quit smoking (tobacco) years ago, but they used to sell “Marlboro 25s” which were 25 to a pack. I think it’s more common outside the USA though.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        So I see, now that I’ve gone searching for it. I’ve never seen these in person in my life. But purportedly you can still buy them. Weird.

        Apparently I had either consumed too little or too much coffee for my brain to be functioning correctly yesterday. My main hangup was that I was trying to figure out how the heck an odd and indivisible by 3 number of cigarettes would be packaged in a rectangular carton like that. Today I’m a little smarter; The answer is a row of 8, a row of 9, and another row of 8. This puts the wide row in the middle which is the opposite of how a typical 20 pack is arranged. I wonder if these are less popular because the two stragglers on the ends tend to get flattened.

        • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 days ago

          The 25 on the box has nothing to do with the amount of smokes in a box. The 25 is related to the length of the cigarettes

          • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            Not how it’s phrased, but we’ll play along. 25 of what?

            25mm?

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            25cm?

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            Or Maybe 25"…

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            Pop quiz! How does your client render that? Anyway, longs are so marketed as “100s” because they’re supposed to be 100mm long. Kings are around 84mm.

            (Although if you’re referring to the Marlboros, I have no idea.)

            • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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              1 day ago

              Not parent, but.

              25s are measured in length of smokes! They last you exactly 25 smokes!

              Disclaimer: Not a smoker, currently blowing smoke out my ass