Cigarettes After the Civil War

Cigarettes start to get popular with Europeans during our right after the Crimean War. In 1856, one veteran of the war opens London's first cigarette factory,. He is joined a few years later by another English entrepreneur who creates the second major cigarette factory in London. And this guy's name is Philip Morris. Oh, wow. I think cancer is just repudiated by him. It was gonna be bad for the cancer brand man. Yeah. So yeah, that's where that comes from.