liggett tobacco company Cigarettes Select Full Flavor 100s Box - Carton Liggett & Myers Inc (1976)

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Under his hands, the simple constructions assigned to us took on a weird, surreal qualitymisplaced-curves and corners, walls with arched backs like cats

After a couple of days whacking that, I bought the rest of the kit for $50 from a guy I knew

Gilbert, interviewed years later said that the modern e-cigarette is obviously based on his original design, and when pressed to say why it never took off in 1963, he could only surmise that the companies he showed it to simply wished to wait until his patent expired to launch their own versions, or, in the case of the tobacco companies, quashed it to protect their established product line