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In 1838, a French craftsman named Jean Bardou came up with the idea for a booklet of rolling papers made of thin, pure rice paper. [1] Bardou's trademark was the initials "JB" separated by a large diamond. The diamond was often mistaken for a capital O by consumers, who began referring to the papers as JOB, thus the brand name was born. [2]
Gauloises (pronounced, "Gaulish" [feminine plural] in French; cigarette is a feminine noun in French) is a brand of cigarette of French origin. It is produced by the company Imperial Tobacco following its acquisition of Altadis in January 2008 in most countries, but produced and sold by Reemtsma in Germany.
Forum Cigarettes Indonesia Indonesia [citation needed] Four Square Godfrey Phillips India: India [20] Four Aces W.D. & H.O. Wills/ Imperial Brands: Sri Lanka: 1901; 124 years ago () [42] FS1 Godfrey Phillips India: India [20] Furongwang Hunan Tobacco Group People's Republic of China: 1951; 74 years ago () [citation needed] Galan Wismilak: Indonesia
The 1980 Ligier JS11/15 being demonstrated at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Gitanes had a long-standing partnership with the Équipe Ligier team. Following the acquisition of the Matra Formula One team's assets, Ligier entered Formula One in 1976 with a Matra V12-powered car, and won the 1977 Swedish Grand Prix with Jacques Laffite.
White burley, similar to burley tobacco, is the main component in chewing tobacco, American blend pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. In 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted red burley seeds he had purchased and found that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look. He transplanted them to the fields anyway, where ...
Blend is a Swedish brand of cigarettes. It was originally owned and manufactured by Swenska Tobaks AB and later Swedish Match AB, until Swedish Match AB sold the brand to Austria Tabak along with the rest of its cigarette production.
SEITA (Société d'exploitation industrielle des tabacs et des allumettes), was the former French state-owned tobacco monopoly. Cigarette brands included Gauloises and Gitanes, both created in 1910. It merged in 1999 with its Spanish equivalent, Tabacalera, to form Altadis.
Cigarettes may be the most notable example of this deviation, although they do, in a sense, represent a category of their own. Tobacciana associated with cigars include cigar ashtrays , cigar tubes , cigar boxes , cigar holders (also known as cigar mouthpieces , which are similar to cigarette holders ), cigar cutters (including cigar scissors ...