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MILWAUKEE (AP) Harley-Davidson motorcycles may light up the roads, but the company extinguished an attempt to put the bike's logo on cigarettes for fear of getting burned by anti-tobacco lawsuits.

Lorillard Tobacco Co., Harley's estranged partner in the cigarette deal, quietly pulled its Harley-Davidson brand off shelves. Last year, Lorillard replaced it with a brand called Maverick, “by the makers of Harley-Davidson cigarettes."

The Harley brand, a marketing effort to expand the motorcycle's name, gained some fans among smokers in the few short years the cigarettes were on the shelves.

Among them was Lorraine Pachi, 67, of Cudahy, a member of the Harley Owners Group, a biker club. Though Harley cigarettes weren't marketed in Wisconsin, Pachi had a trucker friend pick some up for her now and then from out of state, and she still keeps some packs with a gold and black Harley logo as collector's items.

“When I smoked them among the other HOG members, it looked cool," said Pachi, known as “Ma" in the club. “They'd say, `Wow, where did you get the Harley cigarettes?' "