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Professional cigarette tester Sol C. Korn, USA, 1945
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There are actually cigarette testing machines, and have been around for decades apparently. I've learned of them from a blogger back in the 2000s, when he told of his cigarette factory tour and said he felt like one of those machines thanks to the chain-smoking habit. Well apparently this dude is in fact a manifestation of such a machine in flesh.
There are plenty of examples of the tobacco industry telling on itself, but the mere existence of "automated cigarette QA" has to be one of the wildest.