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Viceroy was introduced by Brown & Williamson in 1936 and was the world's first cork-tipped filter cigarette. [1] It was a mid-priced brand at the time, equivalent to B&W's Raleigh cigarettes flagship brand, but more expensive than Wings cigarettes introduced by B&W in 1929.
La Suerte Cigar and Cigarette Factory Philippines [15] Avolution Sampoerna: Indonesia [citation needed] Bahman Iranian Tobacco Company Iran [16] Basic: Philip Morris International (International) Philip Morris USA (United States only) United States [17] Bastos: Altadis, then Imperial Tobacco: Kingdom of Spain: 1830s Belinda: British American ...
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The Camel cigarette became the most popular cigarette in the country. The Reynolds company imported so much French cigarette paper and Turkish tobacco for Camel cigarettes that Winston-Salem was designated by the United States federal government as an official port of entry for the United States, despite the city being 200 miles (320 km) inland ...
Advertisement of the Tube Rose snuff tobacco, from a catalog of the 1920 North Carolina State Fair. B&W was founded in Winston (today's Winston-Salem), North Carolina, as a partnership of George T. Brown and his brother-in-law Robert Lynn Williamson, whose father was already operating two chewing tobacco manufacturing facilities. [4]
An old pack of Kent Ultras from South Africa. Widely recognized by many as the first popular filtered cigarette, Kent was introduced by the Lorillard Tobacco Company in 1952 [3] around the same time a series of articles entitled "cancer by the carton", published by Reader's Digest, [4] scared American consumers into seeking out a filter brand at a time when most brands were filterless.
Needham was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Edith May (née Robinson) and Howard Needham. [1] He was the youngest of three children. [2] Raised in Arkansas and Missouri, Needham served in the United States Army as a paratrooper during the Korean War, worked as a treetopper (an arborist who performs tree topping services), [3] and was a billboard model for Viceroy Cigarettes while ...
A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end, causing it to smolder; the resulting smoke is orally inhaled via the opposite end. Cigarette smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption.