1789 - Tobacco

Tobacco

The first known American advertisement for tobacco appears with a picture of an Indian smoking a long clay pipe while leaning against a hogshead marked "Best Virginia." The advertisement has been placed by Peter and George Lorillard, whose Huguenot French immigrant father, Pierre, then 18, opened a shop in 1760 on the High Road between New York and Boston at a point that will later be called Park Row but was killed by Hessian troops in the Revolution (see 1760; 1911).