1913 - Tobacco

Tobacco

Camel cigarettes are introduced by R. J. Reynolds, whose factories have never before made cigarettes (see 1911). Camels are made largely from a flue-cured bright tobacco much like the tobacco discovered in 1852 by Eli and Elisha Slade, but they also contain a sweetened burley from Kentucky combined with some Turkish tobaccos that make them the first of the modern blended cigarettes. Their package design has been inspired by "Old Joe," a dromedary in the Barnum & Bailey circus menagerie (see 1917).

Chesterfield cigarettes are introduced by Liggett & Myers, which is well known for its Fatima, Picayune, and Piedmont brands (see 1926). Tobacco companies spend $32.4 million to advertise their various brands in the United States, up from $18.1 million in 1910 (see Lucky Strike, 1916).