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Who really invented the Zippo?

For most, the answer is unequivocal – George Grant Blaisdell! At least that’s what Wikipedia says. But in fact, there are very serious doubts about this statement. And the first thing that reinforces this doubt is the fact that Zippo were not the first lighters with wind shields, making them all-weather. Such lighters first appeared […]

Tobacco Stories: Tobacco in War

As it happens, tobacco was a soldier’s best friend. And in all wars. I don’t know about now, but up until the 1980s, tobacco was considered a strategic raw material. That partnership is what this article will be about. Today I will look at the example of World War I as a key event in […]

The history of cigarettes: the No. 1 brand

So we talked about the events of 1911, when the U.S. government sued the American Tobacco Company tobacco Trust. Although the court found that despite the monopoly, Buchanan’s empire had not increased its prices, American Tobacco was accused of violating the Sherman Act. In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the trust should be […]

From the history of cigarette brands: Vanity Fair and Vogue.

The Vanity Fair brand was founded back in 1895 by the Stephano family, but only by the early 1950s did the brand become exclusively for cigarettes. By that time, the descendants of the founders created the company Stephano Brothers Ltd. Vanity Fair was a ladies’ brand, it came in pastel pink and pastel blue packs, […]

Sobranie Cigarettes: History, Facts and FAQ

The history of the brandYear 1879. Two Weinberg brothers, immigrants from Romania, register a new brand of cigarettes, Balkan Sobranie. It would become a popular product in the European, American and Japanese markets. However, only people of high rank or the very rich would be able to buy it in the 19th century. At the […]

History of the appearance of tobacco

Today it is hard to find someone who does not know what tobacco is and how it is used. True, few people know when tobacco appeared, and with it the addiction of tobacco smoking. There is no unequivocal opinion among historians about the emergence and beginning of tobacco smoking. If inhalation of smoke from burning […]

A spy with a smoke: What did James Bond smoke?

Smoked? Was he smoking? Actually, he did. Not in all parts of the movie franchise, but Agent 007 is an avid smoker.) And what exactly did the famous spy of Her Royal Majesty’s Secret Service smoke – we’ll find out in this post! In general, it would be logical to assume that Bond smoked what […]

History and Regular types of Winston cigarettes

History of the brand The history of Winston cigarettes began back in 1875, when Joshua Reindols founded a tobacco factory in a small town Winston, North Carolina. The company’s focus was on chewing tobacco, used everywhere at the time. The products then expanded into smoking tobacco and cigarettes. The Reindols empire was gradually and irrevocably […]

From the history of cigarette brands: Benson & Hedges.

Benson & Hedges was founded on Old Bond Street, London, in 1873 by partners Richard Benson and William Hedges. In 1878 the company received the so-called Royal Warrant, which, however, was abolished in 1999. Benson & Hedges company was one of the first who started to sell tobacco in tin cans, not by the weight […]

The history of cigarettes: New Horizons

The transition to cigarette smoking at the beginning of the twentieth century from traditional cigars and pipes was rather slow. A catalyst of sorts was World War I, where soldiers were supplied with cigarettes by various government organizations and commercial foundations. But it was not the ex-soldiers who gave cigarettes a really wide market, although […]