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November 14, 2025

Tag: Tareyton

  • I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    I’d Rather Fight than Switch

    Bob Toal

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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.

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Past Article

Ray Hahn
April 30, 2020 1 Comment
The suspension monorail was invented in England in the 1820s. The distinction is small but the first suspended railway was opened on June 25, 1825, using a patent recorded by Henry Palmer. It was built to carry bricks, but as an opening stunt it carried passengers. Through the next 75 years several iterations of the […]

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