ビンテージ アメリカのタバコ屋看板 Salem 1985年製 セーラム金属製看板 


横54cm 縦44cm 金属製看板。 古いので多少の傷や角に歪みが有ります。タバコの箱の部分だけ少し立体に成って。
7枚目の写真は裏側ですが、青いライタ-を大きさの参照の為に映しておきました。
米国ではタバコの健康への影響は早くから問題視され、TV等での広告は出来ませんでした。看板は重要だったのです。
タバコは斜陽の一途ですが、R.J. Reynolds Tabacco Companyは多くのブランドを持っていました。
送料を負担しますので、この価格です。

R.J. Reynolds brands include NewportCamelDoralEclipseKent and Pall Mall. Brands still manufactured but no longer receiving significant marketing support include Capri, Carlton, GPC, Lucky Strike, Misty, Monarch, More, Now, Old GoldTareytonVantage, and Viceroy. Discontinued brands include Barclay, Belair, and Real. The company also manufactures certain private-label brands. Five of the company's brands are among the top ten best selling cigarette brands in the United States, and it is estimated that one in three cigarettes sold in the country were manufactured by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Salem is an American brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by ITG Brands,
a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco, inside the U.S. and by Japan Tobacco outside the United States.

Salem was launched in 1956 by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company as the first filter-tipped Menthol cigarette.When the brand was introduced in 1956, Salem's slogan was "Take a puff, it's springtime" which was used for several years afterwards.
Its name (along with that of the Winston brand) derives from Winston-SalemNorth Carolina, the city where RJR was founded and headquartered.