Tradition and History of Dunhill Cigarettes

Dunhill cigarettes are a luxury brand of cigarettes made by the BAT company. A less known fact is that DUNHILL International cigarettes, American distribution is owned and operated by R. J. Reynolds, who are most notably famous for their Camel cigarettes brand.

Dunhill cigarettes are classified as “Premium”, despite the fact that they are not used much in demand. They are sold in the following variants: Dunhill International and Dunhill King size. Dunhill International was formerly known as Dunhill Red Gold.

The traditions of Dunhill Tobacco House originate in 1907, when Alfred Dunhill opened his own store at the outstanding district of London Saint James on Duke Street. The tobacco store offered great variety of first class cigars and tobacco blends. At the beginning of the XX-th century at Saint James  one can see famous clubs for gentlemen, where the art of cigar smoking was the principal thing. Soon, among regular customers were the representatives of British aristocracy. First cigarettes under cover of Dunhill appeared in 1912, and in 1965 Dunhill King Size also appeared.
Russian smokers discovered Dunhill cigarettes in 1994. At that time cigarettes were provided by Rothmans International Company. In 1999 British American Tobacco claimed about the merging with Rothmans International, after which Dunhill brand passed to British American Tobacco.

Cigarette Ads stimulate Teens to Light Up

Tobacco advertisements really do prompt teenagers to smoke, say the authors of a new study that calls for a ban on cigarette ads. In research involving more than 2,100 public school students in Germany, 277 young people who had never smoked before took up the habit after viewing tobacco advertising. Those who saw the most ads were 46 percent more likely to try cigarettes than those who saw no tobacco ads, the study found.

This “just adds weight to the idea of having the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] be able to control tobacco marketing,” said study co-author Dr. James D. Sargent, a professor of pediatrics and family and community medicine at Dartmouth Medical Center in New Hampshire.

Sargent, who has done extensive research on the influence of media on teen behaviors, worked with German researchers to produce the study, published online Jan. 17 in advance of print publication in the February issue of Pediatrics.

“There is a mental model for how advertising works,” said Sargent. After viewing an ad, teens “start having favorable thoughts about smoking: ‘it might be fun, it might make me more socially accepted.’ This preceded any intent to smoke on their part.”

Eventually a teen who has seen tobacco ads thinks about trying smoking, and soon after that “they try it,” said Sargent.

Students involved in the study ranged from 10 to 17 years old, with an average age of 12.5 years, when the study began. They were shown 12 ads with branding removed — six for cigarettes and six for other products, including candy, cars and cell phones. They were asked to identify the product advertised and recall the brand if they could.

After nine months, 13 percent of the students who had seen tobacco ads began smoking, showing a strong connection between the behavior and tobacco advertising, said Sargent. And the more ads they saw, the more likely they were to start smoking, the study found.

Smoking was not related to advertising for other products, the researchers said.

“Each one of these studies that we do is another little block that supports causality, just another little piece of evidence,” Sargent said.

Other known risk factors for teen smoking, such as parental and peer smoking, were controlled for during the data analysis, the researchers said.

“This [study] is very important because there are few, if any, longitudinal studies,” demonstrating a link between tobacco advertising and teen smoking, said Cheryl Healton, president and CEO of the American Legacy Foundation, an anti-smoking organization.

Previous research has mostly relied on cross-sectional studies, she said. That type of study documents incidence of a behavior at a certain point in time and may suggest a link between, say, smoking and advertising, but it doesn’t show cause-and-effect. A longitudinal study, on the other hand, follows participants for a period of time in an effort to demonstrate that one causes the other.

Spain Adopts Tough Anti-Smoking Law

The given law was proposed by the Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his Socialist Party and was approved by 189-154 votes, also was turned down a Senate amendment which permitted casinos to have smoking areas.

From January 2, all bars, cafes and restaurant will be transformed into non-smoking areas, thus bringing Spain to conformity with the European Union’s toughest anti-smoking nations and other states that prohibit smoking in enclosed public places.

“We have to start to become more civilized and modern,” said a smoker. The given law will make Spain one of the toughest places than many other EU countries where is still allowed to have smoking sections. The given law will also ban smoking in outdoor places as playgrounds and the territory around schools and hospitals.

The previous anti-smoking law that was adopted in 2006, and targeted at eradication of smoking and smoking related diseases and deaths, banned smoking in workplaces. But many declared that that law was a failure because it permitted to the majority of bar and restaurant owners to decide whether to allow smoking or not, and almost all of them allowed it.

Bar and restaurant owners will not have that privilege and those who have smoking sections will have to get rid of them. Government officials forecast that thousands of lives that would have been lost because of secondhand smoke will be saved due to this new law.

Top 5 Cigarettes Best Sellers July 2010

Top 5 Cigarettes Best Sellers in July 2010

 

•  Marlboro Red Cigarettes shipped by Express Post  (5-7 days delivery)
•  Chesterfield Classic Blue Cigarettes shipped by Air Mail Registered (around 20 days)
• Winston Cigarettes (6 cartons offer) shipped by  Air Mail Registered ( around 20 days)
• Camel Blue Cigarettes shipped by  Express Post  (around 5-7 days delivery)
• Dunhill Lights - DUTY FREE PRODUCT by Express  Post (5-7 days delivery)

 

Bestselling Cigarettes in December 2010

1. Winston Blue Cigarettes - 9 cartons - 264.6 USD (29.4 USD/carton)


2. L&M Red Cigarettes -   9 cartons - 206.1 USD (22.9 USD/carton)              


3. Camel Lights Cigarettes - 9 cartons - 215.1 USD (23.9 USD/carton)  shipped by Air Mail Registered