Merit cigarettes promise richer taste with lower tar
An advertisement from The Deer Park Progress promotes MERIT and MERIT 100s as enriched flavor cigarettes offering real tobacco taste with lower tar and nicotine. The copy claims comparable taste to higher tar brands, notes 8 mg tar and 0.5 mg nicotine per cigarette for Kings and 12 mg tar and 0.9 mg nicotine for MERIT 100s, and cites FTC and Surgeon General warnings.