Phantom Sweet Cigarettes!!

Sorry for the bad quality pic

I KNEW I'd find this somehwere! But I didn't think I'd find them in my dustbin! (Ok before you go ewwww... I have separate wet & dry garbage bins and picked this up from the dry garbage bin which is not icky dirty)

Sadly the cigarettes were over. My sister smoked the pack before I got home and left me scrounging in the dustbin. But I had too... this dabba will soon be a collector's item and when it is, I will sell it for a million dollars and live off the money for the rest of my life one a beach in Goa...or even Hawaii (dreaming is allowed ok!). The packaging hasn't changed at all since the last 10-15 years!

This is also an 'educational' dabba. The rear part of it (not shown in pic) has a Letter Grid which looks like this:
S L E E T
N R A I N
O U I C E
W H A I L
F R O S T

And you have to spot these words:
Snow, Rain, Ice, Frost, Sleet, Hail.

These mint cigarettes were so cool! I remember going home one day & telling my mom, "Ma I smoked a cigarette today!" As she stood there staring at me wondering what would be the WORST way to respond to this, I said, "Arre Mamma, phantom mint cigarettes" and laughed like I had pulled the wickedest prank ever!

And if that wasn't enough, I'd also put 'lipstick' with the cigarette and bug my mom by parading in front of her with bright red lips. (The cigarette butt was red in colour and if you put some spit on it and then rubbed it on your lips it seriously looked like lipstick)

We got such kicks out of 'smoking' and putting 'lipstick' in school!

Trivia: Phantom ciggies are non-veg. The gelatin is of animal origin. So all you vegetarians... here's another thing you CAN'T have!

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I also found this in the dustbin

Rabbit Synthetic Gum. Btw, both the gum & the cigarettes are manufactured in Pune! For once in my life I'm proud of living in this city.

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Anyone watched the Aus-Japan match? What a match. Ozzies kicked ass in the end! Three goals in the last 10 mins! It was so crazy! M, celebrating?

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