30 avril 2009
The Biggest Cigarette Companies
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The Biggest Cigarette Companies
Today's cigarette market is is dominated by four companies: Philip
Morris USA, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co, Brown & Williamson, and
Lorillard. All companies were involved in the fledgling tobacco
industry of the late 1800's, and are proud of their industry influence.
Philip Morris USA
Philip Morris USA controls over 50% of the US cigarette market. Their
brand portfolio contains Marlboro, the top selling national and
international cigarette brand.
Other Philip Morris brands include: Accord, Alpine, Basic, Benson &
Hedges, Bristol, Bucks, Cambridge, Chesterfield, Collector's Choice,
Commander, Daves, English Ovals, L&Ms, Lark, Merit, Parliament,
Players, Saratoga, and Virginia Slims.
Philip Morris was originally a tobacconist in London, England.
His
store opened in the 1850s, first specializing in hand rolled Turkish
cigarettes. In 1900, the Philip Morris company incorporated in New
York, where it's headquarters are still located today.
Today, Philip Morris owns several facilities to keep up with consumer
demand. Virginia and North Carolina are home to two Manufacturing
Centers. Each center produces over 600 million cigarettes, and ships
over 3 million cartons a day.
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company
Controlling over 20% of the US market, RJ Reynolds is the second
largest cigarette manufacturer today. RJ Reynolds is the company that
owns Camel, the oldest and most controversial modern cigarette brand.
RJ Reynolds is responsible for four of today's Top 10 cigarette brands
- Camel, Winston, Salem and Doral. Other brands in the portfolio
include Century, Magna, Monarch, More, Now, and Sterling.
Founded in 1875, the company first manufactured chewing tobacco, and
later pipe tobacco and cigarettes. Camel cigarettes were the first
modern cigarettes on the market in 1913. Between 1958 and 1983, RJ
Reynolds was the leading cigarette manufacturer.
The largest of the company's manufacturing plants is located in
Tobaccoville, North Carolina.
Brown & Williamson
The third largest force in the cigarette market is Brown &
Williamson, with over 10% of the market share. The company is
responsible for many firsts in the cigarette industry.
Domestic US brands produced by Brown & Williamson include Barclay,
Belair, Capri, Carlton, GPC, Kool, Lucky Strike, Misty, Pall Mall
Filtered, Raleigh, Tareyton, and Viceroy.
George Brown and Robert Williamson were brothers-in-law, both sons of
successful men in the early tobacco industry. In 1893, they began a
formal partnership, first buying the senior Williamson's factory. After
finding success with their hand rolled cigarettes, they began steady
acquisition of smaller companies. In 1927, they became an arm of
British American Tobacco, then moved their facilities to Kentucky two
years later.
The first national brand of menthol cigarettes was B&W's Kool.
Cellulose acetate filters are also credited to B&W, first appearing
in Viceroys. In 1987, Capri's were the first superslim brand of
cigarettes on the market.
Brown and & Williamson is also responsible for one of the world's
best know brands - Lucky Strikes. Lucky Strikes were first marketed in
1853 as a smoking mixture, but was reintroduced as a manufactured
cigarette in 1916.
Lorillard
Lorillard was founded in 1760, and is the oldest tobacco company in the
US. Today, the company controls just under 10% of the US market. Their
brands include Kent, Maverick, Max, Newport, Satin, Triumph and True.
23 avril 2009
Lucky Strike Tobacco - fine tobacco
16 avril 2009
Lucky Strike Cigarettes Green Has Gone to War
1997 'Lucky Lips' pin-up packs. George Washington Hill was president of The American Tobacco Company from 1925 until his death in 1946. The 1940's most successful advertising slogan, "Lucky Strike Cigarettes Green Has Gone to War!," was conceived by Mr. Hill while duck hunting on Monkey Island, North Carolina. Several days earlier Richard Boylan, head of purchasing for ATCo, had informed Hill that there was only a three months' supply of green ink available for printing Lucky Strike Cigarettes labels. Chromium, an element which is essential to solid green ink, was a war material in short supply. Boylan told Hill "Just like the soldiers, green ink has gone to war."
George Washington Hill knew that the green Lucky Strike Cigarettes package didn't appeal to women, but he needed a reason to change colors. When Hill found out that there was a shortage of merchant ships able to carry war supplies to England and Russia, and that older wood hulled ships were being pressed into service, he had his reason. Copper paint was used to protect the wooden hulls from marine worm damage, and Hill had just learned that copper was an ingredient in the ink needed for the gold bands on the Lucky Strike Cigarettes label.
Eureka! George Hill's new "Lucky Strike Cigarettes Green Has Gone to War!" advertising campaign touted the fact that enough bronze (copper and tin alloy) was saved each year to meet the requirements for 400 light tanks, those "speedy battering-rams of destruction!" Lord & Thomas, the Chicago advertising agency that promoted Lucky Strike Cigarettes, received a lot of hate mail because of the patriotic slogan. Critics felt patriotism was being exploited, but Lucky Strike Cigarettes sales did go up dramatically. The "Lucky Strike Cigarettes Green Has Gone to War!" campaign broke about the same time that
09 avril 2009
Rolling a cigarette with tobacco
A rolling machine is a machine that is designed to roll either tobacco
or cannabis into individual cigarettes or spliffs for the operator. To
roll a spliff with cannabis you must break up your smoking material as
well as remove any stems so they won't puncture the paper.
Rolling a
cigarette with tobacco does not require prep work because the leaf is
already shredded. Once the material is ready you open up the rolling
machine by sliding one of the rollers up and over; this exposes a
channel where the material is loaded. Care must be taken to place a
uniform amount of product in the channel or the burn rate will change
as the cigarette is smoked. When ready the roller is slid back into
position and locks into place. The product is cradled and confined in a
round space and gets rolled when the user begins to turn one of the
rollers. After a few turns a single sheet of rolling paper is fed into
the back of the channel with the side missing the glue going in first.
When rolled carefully the paper will make a complete revolution in the
channel and will wrap around and under itself. At this point the user
licks the glue on the rolling paper and continues to roll the rest of
the paper in. When the roller is moved out of position once again a
perfectly rolled cigarette is exposed. This process is considerably
easier than rolling by hand.
02 avril 2009
Greece cigarettes
Karelia Cigarettes
are produced in Greece, short (70 mm), king size (85 mm) or long (100
mm), soft or hard pack or wide flat hard box , 20 or 25 cigarettes in a
pack. Elegant sized and a smooth smoke. Tar volume 6mg Nicotine volume
0.6mg
Karelia Cigarettes Menthol: Tar volume 3mg Nicotine volume 0.3mg
Karelia Cigarettes Ultima: Tar volume 1mg Nicotine volume 0.1mg
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