Cigarettes containing Turkish tobacco (which includes those varieties grown in what is now Greece) exclusively continued to be manufactured and sold as "Turkish cigarettes" in the US (brands Murad, Helmar and others), the UK (Sullivan & Powell, Benson & Hedges, Fribourg & Treyer, Balkan Sobranie) and Germany (where the so-called "Orientzigaretten" had the major market share before the Second World War)
The absence of regulation resulted in new products being introduced that were more hazardous, addictive, and appealing than those preceding them
I have been fortunate to be involved in several early studies of treatment of people seeking help with tobacco dependence and this provided a starting point for a body of research that is still on-going
The advert is represented in a dystopian Blade Runner -like sci-fi world from a distant future where humans have biologically evolved to withstand the toxic effects of tobacco, thus, the narrator formally introducing to the audience the world's first "Natural Born Smoker" - a rather mutated human possessing radical anatomical features like an enlarged nose, self-cleaning lungs, extra eyelids, shrunken ears, and highly developed and elongated fingers, all while possessing an incredible pallid face
