# Cigarettes cause brain cancer in ad execs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-cause-brain-cancer-in-ad-execs/71306>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 5, 2001, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-cause-brain-cancer-in-ad-execs/71306 "2001-07-05T05:57:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![kang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kang)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-cause-brain-cancer-in-ad-execs/71306/1 "2001-07-05T05:57:51Z")

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Ok…

A few months ago, I was looking at a pack of Marlboros. I noticed that in the small type on the little coat of arms, there was the inscription “Veni, Vidi, Vici.”

My response to that was… What the F…?

I came, I saw, I conquered. Ok… seems like Philip Morris has crossed the Rubicon and my lungs, apparently are playing the role of Pompey the Great.

Still, for a while, I passed this off as a strange quirk of the moment for some ad executive somewhere in the primordial days of the tobacco giants.

Then, I happened to see a pack of the “new” set of filtered products by Pall Mall. These are not a Philip Morris product, but one by Brown & Williamson. This pack of cigarettes featured, much more prominantly, a coat of arms. It, too, has a Latin motto. The one chosen was “In hoc signo vinces.” Yes… by this sign, you will conquer. That would make Philip Morris Caesar and Brown & Williamson would be Constantine the Great.

Anyway… I have no point to make with this because I just think it is freakin odd. I’m waiting for a cigarette to have the guts to espouse the Addams Family motto, “Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectos Nunc.” That would be both honest and entirely American in spirit.

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**Author:** ![Tornado\_Siren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tornado\_Siren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tornado_Siren)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2001, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cigarettes-cause-brain-cancer-in-ad-execs/71306/2 "2001-07-05T14:35:18Z")

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Well, we all know that bit tobacco is tryin to take over the world. One would think they might try to be more subtle about it though.