Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1976 Page: 3 of 18
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CEDAR HILL CHRONICLE. Thursday. October'7. 1976—Page 3
Merit
New Taste
"Enriched Flavor! breakthrough brings
unprecedented taste to low tar smoking.
Today there's a way to get real taste
cigarette without high tar.
That's the report on a new taste
discovery called 'Enriched Flavor
A way to pack flavor—extra
flavor—into tobacco without the
usual corresponding increase
in tar.
The cigarette packed with
'Enriched Flavor' tobacco is
remarkable new MERIT
If you smoke, you'll be
interested.
Tests Verify Taste
In tests involving thousands
of smokers of filter cigarettes,
the majority reported
from
a
Philip Morris Inc. 1976
9 mg! 'tar,'' 0.7 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette by FTC Method.
Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined
That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health.
LOW
V#
MERITand MERIT MENTHOL
MERIT delivered more taste than five current
leading low tar cigarettes having all the way up
to 60% more tar.
Repeat: delivered more taste.
In similar tests against 11 mg. to
15 mg. menthol brands, MERIT
MENTHOL was reported to
deliver as much —or more—taste
than the higher tar brands tested.
You' ve been smoking "low tar,
good taste" claims long enough.
Now smoke the cigarette.
MERIT
Unprecedented flavor at 9 mg.
1 tar.
One of the lowest tar levels in
smoking today.
MERIT
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Taylor, Rick. Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1976, newspaper, October 7, 1976; Cedar Hill, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth480381/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Zula B. Wylie Memorial Library.