Chesterfield Cigarettes
by Woodson Savage
Title
Chesterfield Cigarettes
Artist
Woodson Savage
Medium
Digital Art - Cardboard Advertising Sign
Description
Chesterfield was the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company’s best known cigarette brand, which they made from 1911 until 1999. The brand was first introduced in 1873 by the Drummond Tobacco Company of St. Louis, Missouri, a successful plug tobacco manufacturer who had introduced Chesterfield cigarettes as a sideline. Liggett & Myers re-blended and repackaged Chesterfield to compete with the successful 1913 introduction of R. J. Reynolds' Camel Cigarettes.
Chesterfield sponsored Dragnet, Gunsmoke and The Twilight Zone on TV and other notable spokesmen for the brand included Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey.
Phillip Morris USA (part of Altria Group) is the number one cigarette manufacturer in the U.S. today with their Marlboro brand as the industry leading brand; they currently own and market the Chesterfield brand as well.
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October 10th, 2014
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