Talk:Lucky Strike

message: IP address 81.100.182.91 repeatedly adding that Luckies are referred to as "Blue Dragons" and "Red Lightning". I have found no evidence of this and the "contributor" never cites any sources to back up this claim. I have removed the edit twice.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MetalSlugX (talk • contribs) 04:20, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible vandalism

message: Felt that the packaging picture on there needed a bit of an update. Much clearer highly defined picture in its place. --Benmooe (talk) 15:19, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated packaging picture 

message: The date for which Lucky Striker Filters where introduced seems erroneous. 1999 was very recent and there are many Lucky Strike Filter commercials from the 60's on youtube and the internet archive. I have not been able to find the exact date. I recommend the line be deleted until the accurate date can be found.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MetalSlugX (talk • contribs) 04:07, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lucky Strike Filters 

message: I´ve heard the brand name supposly is to come from a "Lucky strike", that the brand heritage is from a tobacco strike in the 19th century. Tobacco was sold out for a cheap price after a tobacco strike, but the consumers preferred the taste on this tobacco, and was thereafter stored as under the strike, and sold under the brand Lucky Strike. This is why Lucky Strike is dryer than most cigarettes. Is there any truth in this myth?
A lucky strike is a reference to the gold rush period.
: I heard it was because they used to put marijuana in the odd one, which would be the lucky strike, but I have no citation for this.--Hm2k (talk) 11:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The spliff "lucky strike" is an urban myth. See snopes.com--Onthemat (talk) 12:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brand name 

message: not one hundres percent sure, but i think that Solid Snake from the Metal Gear (the first two games before Solid make this clearer than the later ones) series smokes lucky strikes...
You're correct.  The original translated version of the game, however, has it misspelled as Lucky Strikers, but I think the newly released version corrects for that.  The brand isn't mentioned past Metal Gear 2, but it's pretty safe to assume that it's the same brand.
The cultural references section is trivia, please remove.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.230.34.247 (talk) 00:21, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  MGS? 

message: Hi, I am not a native Speaker of English, so I don't really dare to edit the article myself, but: that the copper of the green pack was needed to paint tanks in World War II is not more than an clever marketing idea that became something like an urban legend. But it's not true, as far as I know. Could somebody check this and change the article?
: You're quite correct. Change made. - DavidWBrooks 15:56, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: See  and . --91.16.63.106 (talk) 21:43, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  green pack 

message: The article says Lucky Strike's flavor "coincidentally goes very well with Dr. Pepper." Aside from the incorrect period in Dr. Pepper, this appears to be an opinion. Taste is a very individual thing. Michael J 14:23, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: i agree. it's as meaningless as "Pepsi-Cola is a soft drink which tastes good" would be in the pepsi article. it would get deleted in a heartbeat, because whether a product tastes good or not is hardly encyclopedic material. i deleted the dr. pepper part for that reason. supine 14:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goes with Dr Pepper? (POV) 

message: Why no mention of their distribution to soldiers during the war. I thought that was what they were most famous for. Rmhermen 23:42, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  They were even in US Army field rations (C rations) in the 1980s, when the health crisis forced the Army to quit distributing cigarettes to soldiers. Bogomir Kovacs (talk) 14:51, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: WWII

message: I have removed :Category:Cigarette brands from this article because :Category:R.J. Reynolds brands is a sub-category of the former.  It defeats the purpose of having this subcategory if we're going to list the articles in both.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of "Cigarette brands" category 

message: While it is true that the Lucky Strike logo (or a parody of it) does apear in the show, it is not the only cigarette brand to make such an appearence. 
Also, I'd have to check, but don't think that there is any evidence that Faye smokes Lucky Strikes, never mind smoking them exclusively. Like I said, there is more than one brand shown in Cowboy Bebop, and I think in the movie Faye actually takes a cigarette from a "Marlboro" look a like pack.
:Yeah you're right, at the start of the movie- right after the first scene  when the song/B&Wmontage/intro starts, a pack can be seen with the word "strike" obscured in true cowboy bebop fashion. I'll going to edit the page after I get done screen caping it. I've seen them in the show too.     Greg343 10:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Lucky Strike in Cowboy Bebop. 

message: I've deleted one of the references to "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war" -- as it was an explanation for why the pack was changed to white in 1942, it can't have been used in 1917.  Also, the statement that this brand "has a unique and distinctive flavor" strikes me as not quite NPOV:  I've hedged it a bit with "said to have", but it may need more work.
It was apparently a marketing strategy to attract women smokers.  On a different note: I've heard, one cigarette in a pack of Lucky Strike was actually a splife/joint - hence named Lucky Strike.  It was specially packed for the army during World War-II?
 - Yes I also heard something similar, that one in every 100 hand rolled cigarettes was a joint in WW2 - can anyone confirm? Draconyx (talk) 23:09, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Gone to war"? 

message: Who is Charles Dahlberg and we need proof he smokes 2 packs a day. Seth slackware 18:43, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: I want to expanded it, I would love some help. Seth slackware 19:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: F1 project

message: I updated the page - reorganized some info. Added that cowboy bebop screenshot again, with new copyright info. Greg343 23:43, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Update

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Cowboybebop snapshot luckys.jpg

message: I re-worded the paragraph under History which mentioned the rumor that Lucky Strike packages were considered bad luck because they were used by snipers in WWII as targets.  However, I couldn't find a source other than a few blog mentions, and the original contributor of the information didn't provide a source, so this paragraph may need to be completely deleted.  Clockster (talk) 22:22, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to say I agree with you, I just deleted it. Greg343 (talk) 04:45, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad Luck

message: This section included a long, dense paragraph of unrelated examples of Lucky Strike appearing in popular culture.  I believe it was a former Trivia section which was just put in paragraph form.  I regrouped some of the information into more coherent paragraphs, and deleted some examples, as we don't need to know every single time Lucky Strike shows up on screen or in a song. Clockster (talk) 22:45, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the section got way too big. I removed every unsourced part of the section. Feel free to add to it but please find a source for the information as well.--Atlan (talk) 14:08, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Lucky Strike in the Media

message: In the first paragraph, it is noted that Luckies is a competitor to R. J. Reynold's Camels, and in the final paragraph is is noted that R. J. Reynolds now markets Luckies. I would like to see a documentation of when Lucky Strike was acquired from American Brands to R. J. Reynolds.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.237.4 (talk) 11:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Company Transitions

message: My dad, who served as asst G3 with the 77th Div in the Pacific during the war, told me Camels were the GI favorite and the first packs taken when distributed.  And I'm not surprised, because of Camel's success on the air in the late '30s, sponsoring Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and a number of comedy shows.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.241.26.8 (talk) 21:02, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Camels? 

message: In the U.S. in the 1950s, one children's 'game' was to stamp on an empty Luckies' pack if one found one on the ground, and then call out 'Lucky Strike' and slug a friend on the upper arm, followed by 'wiping it off' and saying 'no strikes back.'  So, is this significant enough to be listed? And can someone find a reference for this folk activity?107.134.78.59 (talk) 15:24, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture 

message: I've noticed a bunch of complete-sentence list items here are missing final periods, and am sorry I haven't time to fussily add all of them on my phone. Okay, I also couldn't pass up the chance to use this Talk-entry title; you've got me. – AndyFielding (talk) 17:25, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing periods?