Top Ten Cigarettes

1. Marlboro
Marlboro is a brand of cigarette made by Altria. It is famous for its billboard advertisements and magazine ads of the Marlboro Man.Philip Morris, a London-based cigarette manufacturer, created a New York subsidiary in 1902 to sell several of its cigarette brands, including Marlboro. By 1924 they were advertising Marlboro as a woman's cigarette based on the slogan "Mild As May".The brand was sold in this capacity until World War II when the brand faltered and was temporarily removed from the market. At the end of the war, three brands: Camel, Lucky Strike, and Chesterfield surfaced and established a firm hold on the cigarette market. However, the 1950s saw an impressive comeback of Marlboro cigarettes when a new cowboy image was introduced in promotion and the sales skyrocketed by 5000%.During the same era Reader's Digest magazine published a series of articles that linked smoking with lung cancer. Philip Morris, and the other cigarette companies took notice and each began to market filtered cigarettes. The new Marlboro with a filtered tip was launched in 1955.The brand is named after Great Marlborough Street, the location of its original London factory. Richmond, Virginia, is now the location of the largest Marlboro cigarette manufacturing plant.




2. Newport
Newport, introduced in 1957, is a brand of menthol cigarettes produced by the Lorillard Tobacco Company in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lorillard Tobacco Company is the oldest Tobacco Company is the United States. The cigarettes are produced in full flavor , medium, and light varieties, and packaged in two sizes: 72s, and 100s. Newport lights, full flavour, and full flavour 100 are available in softpacks.



3. CamelCamel has enjoyed nearly a century of outstanding success, and what was true of the original Camel is just as true today -- it's a "Pleasure to Burn." Introduced in 1913, Camel became R.J. Reynolds' first major cigarette brand and the country's first nationally marketed cigarette. Camel's unique blend of flue-cured, burley and exotic Turkish tobaccos made it the nation's No. 1 selling brand just four years after its introduction.




4. Winston
Winston was introduced in 1954 and became the first nationally popular filtered cigarette. By 1966, Winston became the best-selling cigarette in the nation, a position it held for 10 years. Today, Winston remains one of the country's top-10 cigarette brands. Winston's "Leave the Bull Behind" attitude is backed by its unique, additive-free product point-of-difference – smooth tobacco taste.



5. Doral
Doral was introduced in 1969 and repositioned in 1984 as a savings brand, becoming the first branded cigarette to compete in the growing value segment. Doral quickly became -- and continues to be -- the leading savings brand in the United States. The brand's "Imagine Getting More" positioning builds on Doral's core promise -- offering adult smokers more value for their money. The brand will continue to fulfill this promise through its primary communication vehicles -- the successful and long-running Doral & Company relationship-marketing program and its popular Web site.




6. Basic
Basic is a brand of lower-cost cigarettes manufactured by Philip Morris, a division of Altria Group.




7. Gpc
gpc is a brand of the cigarettes manufactured by Brown & Williamson, now after On July 30, 2004, a business transaction combined the nation’s No. 2 and No. 3 tobacco companies, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and the U.S. operations of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., under the Reynolds Tobacco name.




8. Salem
Salem Cigarette was introduced in 1956 as the first filtered menthol cigarette. Salem eventually dominated the menthol category -- becoming one of the world's best-selling brands. Today, Salem Cigarettes remains one of the best-selling menthol brands in the United States. Salem stands apart from other menthol cigarettes with its imaginative "Stir the Senses" positioning, innovative packaging and distinctive product blends.




9. Kool
Launched in 1933, Kool was the first menthol brand to gain nationwide distribution and it quickly became one of the world's most famous menthol cigarettes.Kool is distinctive among menthol cigarettes because it delivers an intense menthol smoking experience that is bold, yet smooth. Kool achieves the perfect balance of rich tobacco taste by combining specially blended tobaccos with the fresh flavor of menthol. The fusion of tobacco and menthol is symbolized by the interlocking "O's" in the Kool logo, which are present today in much the same form as on the original packaging.




10. Virginia Slims
Virginia Slims is a brand of cigarette manufactured by Philip Morris. The brand was introduced in 1968 and directly marketed to young, professional women, under the famous slogan, "You've come a long way, baby." Some media watchgroups considered this Virginia Slims marketing campaign to be responsible for a rapid increase in smoking among teenage girls.