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 […]
Smoking Culture
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 […]
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 […]
What Tar Actually Measures
The number on the side of a pack — 10mg tar, 5mg tar — looks like a specification. It is […]
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, […]
How Cigarettes Are Made
A cigarette looks simple — paper, filter, tobacco — and the process that produces one is a long agricultural and […]