“Phillip Morris, the world’s biggest cigarette producer, announced today that they will join the marijuana legalization bandwagon and start producing marijuana cigarettes. To be marketed under the brand ‘Marlboro M,’ it will be made available for sale through marijuana licensed outlets in the state of Colorado, and Washington when it becomes commercially legal later this year.”

What really should have tipped readers off to the fraud, however, was the following paragraph, where the author claimed that Serafin Norcik (fictional VP of Marketing for Phillip Morris) was turning to drug lords for assistance

“Norcik added that they have begun contacting former drug lords in Mexico and Paraguay, currently the largest marijuana producing countries in the world, for the possibility of setting up a distribution ring across the North and South American continents, to streamline the supply lines.”

According to Snopes, this isn’t the first time that Marlboro has been considering an entry into the drug world. In fact, this has been going on for over 50 years

“At least as far back as the 1960s, rumors have circulated that major tobacco companies were preparing to enter the marijuana cigarette market in anticipation of the imminent legalization of pot in the U.S., buying up marijuana fields in Mexico, designing new cigarette packages, and trademarking potential brand names such as ‘Panama Red’ and ‘Acapulco Gold.'”

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Lucky Strike was one of Sterling Cooper’s top tier clients. 1

Lucky Strike and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce

Roger Sterling shepherded the company’s relationship with Sterling Cooper by coddling CEO Lee Garner, Jr and took Lucky Strike (and Garner) as the cornerstone client of the nascent Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. 2

Advertising laws affecting cigarettes changed in the mid 1960s forcing Don and Roger to have a conference call with Garner in which they try to calm him about the implications of the changes. 3 In the call we can infer that Garner is concerned about the new restriction against showing sports figures (seen as role models and heroes) smoking. This would have a been a particular concern for Garner who’d been getting great mileage out of a Lucky Strike campaign featuring New York Jets football star Frank Gifford.

After blowing the initial meeting with the Japanese for business with Honda, Pete claimed that Roger was sabotaging the meeting because SCDP became “less dependent on Lucky Strike and therefore less dependent on you.” Roger rushed Pete, but Don stepped in between the two men. After Pete left the room, Don said that Pete was right about this characterization. 4