Tijuana Smalls is a brand of
flavored cigarettes that was produced after a prohibition on
advertising cigarettes on television in the
United States
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that was signed into law by President
Richard Nixon
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in 1970. These flavored cigarettes were advertised as "Little Cigars". The brand's
jingle
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contained the lyrics, "Tijuana Smalls, ten for the road baby, for you maybe, you know who you are, you know who you are." The revised lyrics were written by
Susan Dias Karnovsky.
This brand of cigarettes was mentioned in the chorus of
Primus song "
Shake Hands with Beef" on the ''
Brown Album
''Brown Album'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Primus. It was released on July 8, 1997, by Prawn Song and Interscope Records. It was the band's first album with new drummer Brain, who replaced former drummer Tim Alexander. ...
''.
In the mid-1970s, "
Wacky Packages
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" used a
parody
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called "Tijuana Smells" among its stickers.
Cigarette brands
References
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