Tijuana Smalls is a brand of flavored cigarettes that was produced after a prohibition on advertising cigarettes on television in the

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that was signed into law by President

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in 1970. These flavored cigarettes were advertised as "Little Cigars." The brand's

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contained the lyrics, "Tijuana Smalls, ten for the road baby, for you maybe, you know who you are, you know who you are." The revised lyrics were written by Susan Dias Karnovsky. According to a ''New York Times article'', the brand was introduced in Boston on January 12, 1970 by the

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. The introduction was facilitated by the advertising firm Ogilvy and Mather.

Cultural references

This brand of cigarettes was mentioned in the chorus of Primus song " Shake Hands with Beef" on the '' Brown Album'' (1997). In the mid-1970s, "

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" used a

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called "Tijuana Smells" among its stickers.

References

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