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Cigarette girls in Florida in 1956 Cigarette girl at the Bellmansro restaurant in Sweden, 1940. In Europe and the United States, a cigarette girl was an attractive young woman who sold or provided cigarettes from a tray held by a neck strap, a common casual occupation until supplanted by vending machines in the 1950s, especially at nightclubs, but also at restaurants, bars, casinos, and other ...
Engraving of the Allen & Ginter warehouses in Richmond, Virginia, from an 1886 promotional book Virginia Brights cigarette box by Allen & Ginter, c. 1888. The firm of Allen & Ginter, born around 1880, was the rebranding of John F. Allen & Company, a partnership formed about eight years earlier by John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter.
Initially "E. Goodwin and Brother", the company was founded before the American Civil War. It was known for its cigarette brands "Gypsy Queen" and "Old Judge". In 1890, the company was merged, along with four others, into James Buchanan Duke's American Tobacco Company [1] to create an American monopoly on tobacco product manufacturing and retail.
Project SCUM was a plan proposed in 1995 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) to sell cigarettes to members of the "alternative lifestyle" areas of San Francisco, in particular the large number of gay people in the Castro and homeless people in the Tenderloin. The acronym "SCUM" officially stood for "subculture urban marketing".
Five Star first opened in Raleigh in 2000 and is known for a modern Chinese menu, with steamed dumplings, noodles and rice dishes. The Durham Five Star opened in early 2023, moving into the space ...
BATUS was created by British American Tobacco as a subsidiary to oversee the U.S. holdings in 1980. [4] [5] [6] Through its BATUS unit, BAT diversified its tobacco holdings with acquisitions in the retail sector, [7] paper sector (through the acquisition of Appleton Paper Company [3]) and insurance through the acquisition of Farmers Insurance Group.
Reynolds American, Inc. is an American tobacco company which is a subsidiary of British American Tobacco [5] and is the second-largest tobacco company in the United States. [6] Its holdings include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company , American Snuff Company (formerly Conwood Company), Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company , R. J. Reynolds Vapor Company ...
Dinner theater (sometimes called "dinner and a show") is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical. Sometimes the play is incidental entertainment, secondary to the meal, in the style of a sophisticated night club or the play may be a major production with dinner less important and in some cases it is ...