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June 14, 2010 at 5:45 PM Unknown said

The rough, self-reliant cowboy had long stood as a symbol of rugged masculinity, and Philip Morris and Leo Burnett had just placed a Marlboro between his fingers

"The packaging is identical," Jackler says, as are the catchphrases used to market them: "Crisp, fresh all the kinds of things that are buzzwords for menthol advertising," he says

Robert Jackler, a professor of neuroscience and surgery at Stanford who has done extensive research on e-cigarette marketing, puts it plainly: Packaging of vapor products lack subtlety, he says

Toss the weed and live to smoke another day

So closely resembling our signature cigars, they even include the same surgeon generals warning on a small tag (not embroidered) affixed to the side of the hat