Realizing that anyone can quit
Lawrence believed, she told me when the campaign was under way, was that in the new longer cigarette we had an elegant, classy product, tied in with affluence, appealing to mass buyers between twenty and forty who are slightly higher in education than most, and more sophisticatedpeople whove seen their supermarkets turn in to the Folies-Bergres, people who are used to being entertained, people who are winner-oriented. One of the things that lay behind the Wells, Rich, Greene campaign was an approach in which the advertiser attempted to come to a kind of implicit understanding with the viewer that most advertising was, yes, rather a nuisance, and that in return for deciding to buy Benson & Hedges 100s the viewer would be spared a hard sell for the brand over the tube
This fight is a long way from over."
The original duty free shop was the one that sold cigarettes and alcohol at hugely discounted prices, it was this concept that the phrase duty frees was built on and has since spurned a global retail hub in airports and on airlines for those seeking a bargain
