more at http://quickfound.net "MURIEL cigars - Male and female cartoon cigars sing and dance on a stage." The female cigar is a Mae West impersonation. Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization. The audio was highly "clipped" on this particular commercial, and could not be fully restored. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar A cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Canary Islands (Spain), and the Eastern United States. The origins of cigar smoking are still unknown. In Guatemala, a ceramic pot dating back to the tenth century features a Mayan smoking tobacco leaves tied together with a string. Sikar, the term for smoking used by the Mayans may have inspired the name cigar... http://cigar-box-purses.info/the-history-of-muriel-cigars.html The History of Muriel Cigars The history of the Muriel Cigars begins in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when this brand was manufactured by P. Lorillard and Company in a factory which was located in Jersey City, New Jersey. In that era, this particular company held the honor of being the largest and oldest manufacturer of tobacco products in USA although with the passage of time it lost its ground to bigger competitors. As a result of this fall-out, the brand Muriel cigars was acquired by a company named Consolidated Cigars in 1959 who were responsible for launching an aggressive marketing campaign which popularized the brand beyond everyone's imagination. At present, the brand Muriel cigars is owned by Altadis, USA, which is one of the biggest and most renowned companies in the American cigar industry... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altadis Altadis is a multinational purveyor and manufacturer of cigarettes, tobacco and cigars. Altadis was formed via a 1999 merger between Tabacalera, the former Spanish tobacco monopoly and SEITA, the former French tobacco monopoly. Through its international holdings, including ownership of the former Consolidated Cigar Corporation, and half ownership of the Cuban state tobacco monopoly, Habanos S.A., Altadis is today the largest producer of mass market and premium cigars in the world, as well as the fourth largest producer of tobacco products. The company was acquired by the British tobacco giant Imperial Tobacco in 2008... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorillard_Tobacco_Company Lorillard Tobacco Company is an American tobacco company marketing cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick, Old Gold, Kent, True, Satin, and Max... The company is named for Pierre Abraham Lorillard, who founded the company in 1760. In 1899, the American Tobacco Company organized a New Jersey corporation, called the Continental Tobacco Company, that took a controlling interest in many small tobacco companies. By 1910, James Buchanan Duke controlled Lorillard and the American Tobacco Company even as it kept its original name. In 1911, the U.S. Court of Appeals found the American Tobacco Company "in restraint of trade," and issued a Dissolution Decree to the American Tobacco Company, which created the opportunity for Lorillard to become an independent company again. In 1925, Lorillard experienced great transition as Benjamin Lloyd Belt became president. Having been with the company since 1911, Belt made some decisions that made the company profitable. He began to prioritize on promoting the Old Gold brand instead of Beech-Nut chewing tobacco., using such tactics as Old Gold on Broadway and sponsoring Artie Shaw's program on CBS Radio from November 20, 1938 until November 14, 1939. Belt was still president when he died in 1937. Lorillard Tobacco Co. opened a new cigarette plant on East Market St. in Greensboro, NC in 1956, moving cigarette manufacturing from Jersey City, New Jersey and Richmond, VA. Loews Corporation purchased Lorillard in 1967. Testifying under oath before Congress in 1994, Lorillard's CEO Andrew Tisch said that he didn't believe that nicotine is addictive nor that cigarette smoking causes cancer...

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