Flying Fags – Golden Dragon

Some of you older types like me might remember when they used to sell cigarettes in round tins (JPS certainly still were in 1970s Britain). For some reason it seemed a bit classier than a regular pack and schoolkids like me collected the tins to put God knows what in. Classic Shanghai fag makers Nanyang Brothers, who’s building still stands just about over near Yangpu district (some sort of flop house motel and grungy restaurant now), believed in tins it seems, at least for their Golden Dragon brand that linked the modern phenomenon of flying (this was 1928) with smoking. The ad also shows that “Chinglish” is nothing new either – ‘going quality’??