The Beautiful Smoke

Posted by Fabio 18 March 2010

As deadly, damaging, dangerous, damn disgusting cigarettes are for our bodies as beautiful and eye-catching are these designs for various cigarette packaging from the last century. The first pack is Novaya Planeta (New Planet) from U.S.S.R., 1958, which design celebrated the new space program.
This and the following two packs were manufactured in the states tobacco monopoly’s Leningrad factory, and was intended for foreign visitors.

Apollo-Soyuz
Yava/Philip Morris & Co. joint venture, 1975

Cosmos
U.S.S.R., 1981

1
Greece, 1995

Death
Holland, 1990

Cancer
Pacfic Tobacco., U.S.A., 1966

Brand “X”
G.A. Georgopulo & Co., U.S.A., 1960

Newport
P. Lorillard Tobacco Co., U.S.A., 1956

Metropol
China, 1920s

Campeones (Champions)
El Buen Tono, Mexico, 1930s