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Bad news, nicotine-addled boys and girls. Just moments ago we got a call back from one Dana Bolden, a spokesman for Philip Morris USA. Mr. Bolden — yup, Dana's a guy, or else he's a chick who's been smoking several packs a day for five or six decades — assures us that his upstanding corporation is not engaged in any sort of grassroots-marketing trickery that involves leaving packs of cigarettes around the city. In which case there's only one answer left: God wants us all to develop cancer.

Because clearly someone is determined to keep us smoking. Three more reports await after the jump.

I don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but I found a full wrapped pack of Newport Lights [Ed. Note: A Lorillard brand!] in a cab in Park Slope a week or 2 ago. I don't smoke cigarettes so I gave them to the driver who was very happy, he was going to trade them in for real Newports.

I too found a pack of Marlboro reds. I was leaving the movie theater on 3rd and 11th (after seeing Match Point) and found a nearly full pack on the floor of the aisle. This was about a week ago.

I thought it was very strange when on Wednesday night I found an opened, but completely full pack of Marlboro Lights in the back seat of a cab when I got in on Seventh Avenue at 17th Street. If it in indeed a conspiracy, it's working. I gave up smoking a while ago, but of course took the cigarettes with me and had one when I got home (and have had several since)...

Earlier:
 Cigarettes Keep Falling on Your Head, But That Doesn't Mean Your Eyes Will Soon Be Turning Red
Cigarettes Keep Falling on Your Head, Part 2
Cigarettes Keep Falling on Your Head, Parts 3 and 4