Category Archives: History

From smoking sections on jets to today’s FAA ban, here’s how in‑flight smoking disappeared in the U.S.—with facts, timelines, and the real reasons airlines said goodbye to cigarette smoke.

Do you remember that strange feeling when, in the early 90s, beautiful, shiny packs with unfamiliar names suddenly appeared in kiosks? Just yesterday, Prima and Cosmos were on sale, and today, Marlboro, Camel, and Winston cigarettes lie next to Love Is chewing gum. It seemed as if a piece of cinematic America had arrived in […]

Europe has its royal houses, but it also boasts an impressive lineup of truly “royal” cigarette brands steeped in history, tradition and, of course, luxury. Bernadotte, Bourbon, Grimaldi, Orange-Nassau, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Windsor. Now compare them to Davidoff, Dunhill, Parliament, Sobranie and Tradition. What do these two lists have in common? That’s right – both contain […]

History of the Brand The history of the tobacco brand began in the spring of 1952. At that time, new cigarettes “KENT” from the American company “Lorilard Tobacco Company” were released. The brand was named in honor of the CEO Herbert Kent. These were the first cigarettes with a filter. Before that, only cigarettes were […]

Yes, despite the fact that in our country these cigarettes have long ceased to have anything in common with the original, it is a true legend of the tobacco world. And today, in a brief summary, I present to your attention some facts that you may not have known about. Lucky Strike is one of […]

History of the cigarette and where was tobacco first discovered for smoking? When did the first cigarette appear? What provoked the popularity of cigarettes? Today we offer to understand in detail the history of the origin and development of cigarettes and get answers to your questions. Tobacco in the ancient worldTobacco, as a representative of […]

If we don’t take into account a lot of Chinese “plastic”, disposable and not so disposable, there are only a few lighter brands left, with Zippo as the leader. At least if you count in the category of widely available, reusable and more or less universal. Of course, there are Ronson and IMCO, but unlike […]

No, today’s post will not be about our, everyone’s favorite, Henry Tudor.)) Today will be a text about names. More precisely about the names of cigarette brands and although many of them seem to be made up from the background, but definitely not all of them. I will tell you about some of them today. […]

Or rather, not even about the cigarette filter! There are all sorts of things made with a filter these days! There are versions for self-smoking cigarettes, for smoking a pipe, even cigarillos and there are some with a filter. A few facts you may not have known are in this article. The first cigarette filter […]

Creativity and ingenuity have never been alien to tobacco marketers. Not only that, but tobacco marketers are the only ones who periodically feel the pressure of a whole bunch of different organizations wanting a piece of the “tobacco pie”. In previous reviews I have written about how some brands have marketed by improving tobacco content […]