Today I offer you a collection of facts about the legend of the world tobacco market. But, let me not repeat myself here and replicate everything that is known about the brand. I will limit myself to little known facts. But I can’t do without mentioning some of the key ones. So, Marlboro first appeared […]
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Sometimes they come back again… Smoking Captain Black
I’m sure many people will remember this brand with a kind word… But the time of that very American Captain Black is long gone and, unfortunately, irrevocably gone. The Dominican version, now on sale, is always inferior in quality to the American one. But even that has almost disappeared from the tobacco shelves in the […]
Continue readingWhat Does Advertising Really Sell Us?
Tobacco advertising was banned for a reason. Believe me, tobacco creatives knew exactly how to control our desires.) The mechanism of advertising and now works the same way, but it was tobacco needed to maintain a strict balance (because tobacco is harmful)) and at the same time successfully sell the product. Briefly about the manipulation […]
Continue readingHistory of one manipulation, or how anti-tobacco activists create “facts” for themselves
Back in 2006, another scandal erupted in the world of anti-tobacco campaigns – the largest US tobacco companies were accused of artificially increasing the amount of nicotine in their cigarettes, while keeping it secret from the consumers themselves. The purpose, of course, was to increase the army of unhappy smokers with the mass of “addicted […]
Continue readingWho really invented the Zippo?
For most, the answer is unequivocal – George Grant Blaisdell! At least that’s what Wikipedia says. But in fact, there are very serious doubts about this statement. And the first thing that reinforces this doubt is the fact that Zippo were not the first lighters with wind shields, making them all-weather. Such lighters first appeared […]
Continue readingTobacco Battle: Parliament or Sobranie – to find out whose tobacco is better. Which is more profitable to smoke?
Dear readers, I start a new rubric on my blog “Tobacco Battle”. The main purpose of this column is to compare two brands of cigarettes and find the best option. The heroes of today’s review will be two premium cigarette brands Parliament and Sobranie. They are in the same price range. Thanks to this, the […]
Continue readingWhat young people smoke: Kent Crystal Mix cigarettes
More recently I did a similar review, based on researching a lot of youthful sub-publics, on the topic of “how to be an adult”… No, of course not)) Kids have been living their own lives for a long time and smoke not to imitate their parents (besides, not all parents of their offspring smoke), but […]
Continue readingThe subtleties or facts and curiosities of cigarette branding in pictures
Now it may seem that the design of cigarette packages does not make any sense, I mean the new brands, and the computer comes up with the name)). However, they say that this is wrong, and marketers, if they are involved in the creation of a new brand, carefully design not only the color combination […]
Continue reading“Milano” Cigarettes
Cigarettes with the unusual, ear-catching name of MILANO have already taken their place in the tobacco industry. The already well-known brand is an imported one. Yes, it is not brightly popular, but it is quite in demand among the rest of the Eastern segments, the homeland of which is the United Arab Emirates. A variety […]
Continue readingHigh Tech: Smoking Kent HDi Blue
Kent produced in Europe under license, even if it was not as tasty as the American one of the 1990s, but it was still popular. In addition, this brand has always held a firm position in the premium segment and its only serious rival was only Parliament. What were these cigarettes and what was their […]
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