Kent Cigarettes are a cigarette brand, first to introduce smoke filters in 1952. A cigarette will burn to ash on one end. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Cultural References
In the documentary, The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit, the Fab Four overhear a Kent cigarettes radio commercial, expressing sarcastic interest in it:
Radio Announcer: Looking for a filtered cigarette that really satisfies? Paul McCartney: Looking for one? Radio Announcer: One that will give you the pleasure you want in smoking. Paul McCartney: I am, yes. Radio Announcer: Well, look no more. There is a cigarette that gives you the better(?) action you are looking for today. Paul McCartney: Which one!? Radio Announcer: Kent! John Lennon: KENT! Radio Announcer: ...with the exclusive micronite filter. (Kent "Satisfies the Best" theme song plays and John Lennon whistles along.) The Beatles were a British popular music group from Liverpool, England held in very high regard for both its artistic achievements and its considerable commercial success. ... An Announcer is a voice actor who works in television, radio and film, usually providing narrations, news updates, station identification, or an introduction of a product in television commercials or a guest on a talk show. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a British singer, musician and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles. ... John Winston Lennon (later John Ono Lennon) (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. ...
Cigarettes from an unopened pack of Kentcigarettes with intact cellophane bearing a Vermont state tax stamp, dated by its federal tax stamp as having been made in 1952, were used in the smoking experiments.
Smoking was accomplished by inserting a cigarette into the receiving end of a syringe, scaling the cigarette at the syringe with commercially available silicone sealant, suspending the smoker assembly vertically, and lighting the cigarette with a butane lighter.
Nonmanipulated cigarettes released from 76,200 to 728,520 total crocidolite structures in 2 puffs, and between 3,690 and 35.250 of these were 5 µm or longer.
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