Tobacco industry in Egypt
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The tobacco industry in Egypt was a major export industry that influenced global fashion during the period between the 1880s and the end of the First World War. It was notable as a rare example of the
A nineteenth-century, tin box of Kyriazi Frères brand, Egyptian cigarettes
A 1919 American advertisement for an Egypt-inspired cigarette brand, S. Anargyros' "Egyptian deities"
Murad (cigarette)
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Turkish tobacco is sun-cured, which makes it more aromatic and, like flue-cured tobacco, more acidic than air- or smoke-cured tobacco, thus more suitable for cigarette production.
Advertisement for Murad cigarettes by Rea Irvin in 1900
Murad ad by Rea Irvin, 1918
One of the first basketball cards issued in 1910 by Murad Cigarettes, featuring Xavier College
Colgate football team on a cigarette card by Turkish cigarettes company Murad (1910)