April 19, 2025
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I’d Rather Fight than Switch
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Selling tobacco with a symbol (the tobacco-store indian statue) or a slogan (“I’d rather fight than switch”) has a long and storied history. But “I’d rather fight than switch” wasn’t original with the old Taryton brand. Here’s the story.
Past Article
October 27, 2021 3 Comments
Charles Dickens and Raphael Tuck, a match made in heaven? Well, perchance, no, but when the author wrote his novels, he had no idea that a man named Tuck would also make a fortune from the tales he invented. The same was true in reverse, when the Tuck company needed subjects for their postcards, they turned to an author who died forty years before.