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Pack of 2021 Bowman Chrome Lights 100 BOX! (Break)

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Topps recently introduced another marketing gimmick that was right up my alley... Bowman Chrome LIGHT(s)! I'm a smoker and that's bad and I know that.  I quit for a while and then I quit quitting.  And that's bad and I know that. But as a smoker, I'm very familiar with the term: "Light". Back in the nights of gas stationery (parts one and two ), I probably heard the phrase "Pack of Marlboro Lights BOX!" at least 10 times per shift. Sure, there were occasional switch ups, like replacing Marlboro with Camel, or the addition of 100 after Lights, sometimes even Soft Pack for Box. No matter how you remixed it, you heard it a lot leading up to bar rush and again during the morning commute. Some ten or so years ago, tobacco companies were made to remove the word "Light" from their packaging, as the powers that be found that term misleading. Years went by before I even noticed. Out of habit, I always asked for Lights. And the clerks always knew w...