Cigarette Brand Guides & Buying Notes
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A Short History of the Cigarette
The cigarette is a relatively recent object. Cigars and pipes are centuries old; the manufactured cigarette as a mass product is about a hundred and forty years old,…
How Many Cigarettes a Day Is Typical?
Surveys in the US consistently put average daily consumption among smokers at roughly half a pack — around 10 to 12 cigarettes. That average conceals a very wide dis…
Cigarette Brands by Country: A Field Guide
The cigarette industry looks like it has hundreds of brands. It has four or five companies and a very long list of local names, many of which are the same product un…
What Tar Actually Measures
The number on the side of a pack — 10mg tar, 5mg tar — looks like a specification. It is a measurement artefact, and understanding how it is produced explains a grea…
How Cigarette Packs Became Design Objects
A cigarette pack is a small object with an unusually hard design job: it must be identifiable at three metres, fit a pocket, survive being sat on, and carry a legall…
How Cigarettes Are Made
A cigarette looks simple — paper, filter, tobacco — and the process that produces one is a long agricultural and industrial chain. Here is the sequence, from field t…