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Nowadays, many people are very fond of smoking, especially after a meal, and some people will use the special taste of tobacco to relieve their inner emotions when they are particularly nervous.
In the hearts of old smokers, those old cigarettes in the past are now a kind of memory, a different kind of feeling that exists in memory.
With the reform and development of history, the reform of tobacco is also continuing, whether it is from the outer packaging or the style of cigarettes, they are different.
Nowadays, there are thin, coarse, popping filters, sandwich tobacco, etc., and in the past, the classification of tobacco was particularly simple, and some did not even have filters.
White bear cigarettes can be said to be the memories of many old smokers, this cigarette was very popular in the early 60s, the price is medium to high, it is a taste that some rich people like very much, delicate and smooth, and the overall choice of tobacco is on the thin side, although it is not resistant to smoking, but it is better than the taste and taste.
However, after this cigarette was replaced by some more cost-effective cigarettes that appeared later, the Zhengzhou cigarette factory slowly began to stop selling.
Nowadays, many people in the 80s have never seen this cigarette, and if you still keep the cigarette case, it may retain its value even more in the next few decades.
In the past, people gave more concrete names to cigarettes, generally some of the more famous places in the local area, or some specific names, including using place names to define the name of cigarettes.
In addition to this Shanghai brand cigarette, there are also Lanzhou, Chengdu, Bei'anqiao and so on.
Because at that time, there were not many cigarette factories that would spend a lot of money to ask advertisements or reporters to take the name of the cigarette, which was generally designated by the factory director, and the Shanghai brand cigarettes were only sold locally in Shanghai, so friends from other places almost never saw this cigarette.
The era of Pegasus brand cigarettes is relatively gone, and this cigarette is also the predecessor of Liqun, because the price is relatively cheap, so it has always been more popular with smokers.
In the 60s and 70s, there were many merchants who would give priority to selling this cigarette, which was highly profitable and easy to sell, but later due to changes in the selection and production process of tobacco, this cigarette also disappeared in the long river of history.
The Little Wild Goose Pagoda is a real place, and it has a history of more than 1,300 years, and after more than 70 earthquakes, the Wild Goose Pagoda is still standing, and there are some mysterious legends.
It is rumored that the Little Wild Goose Pagoda once split three times, and these three times it was cracked by itself and then closed inexplicably, such a legend has added a lot of mystery to the Little Wild Goose Pagoda.
This is also the reason why this cigarette was named after the Little Wild Goose Pagoda, because it is legendary enough, so it can be sold and traded as a local specialty cigarette.
And the Little Wild Goose Pagoda brand cigarettes are also relatively rare cigarettes with a special taste, its fragrance is cocoa-type, not only boys like it, but some cool women also like it very much, but then it is slowly no longer produced.
Peppermint cigarettes, as the name suggests, are the whole of tobacco with mint added to it, so it tastes cool and silky, and it is the favorite of many smokers in summer.
In addition, this cigarette extracts the overall flavor of mint, and the stems and leaves of mint are also mixed with the tobacco, so not only will there be a faint mint taste when inhaled, but the whole mouth can also feel the cool impact of mint.
However, because this cigarette has certain limitations in the collection of raw materials, many of the mint grown with relatively small stems and leaves cannot be used, and this cigarette has a certain timeliness when it is sold.
In winter, the sales of this cigarette are not very good, so the Tianshui cigarette factory has slowly stopped production, and now it is already looking for a needle in a haystack.
The cigarette has been on the market for a relatively short time, and it has disappeared from people's field of vision before it has barely become popular.
This tobacco is also a typical flue-cured tobacco, there is no filter, and the overall body is relatively short, and it is also a paper packaging in the early days, because the cost performance is not too high, and the taste is too thick, many people do not like it, so it is slowly discontinued.
Qunmao brand cigarettes were rarely seen in the 70s, and the old smokers of the previous decade may still have some vague memories of this tobacco.
This cigarette was launched by the Harbin Cigarette Factory, and it is also a relatively new pattern, and the one in the photo was sold after being improved in the early 70s.
Beijing brand cigarettes are produced by the Beijing Cigarette Factory in China, and it is also one of the many cigarette brands named after the place name, many old smokers in Beijing may still have an impression of this, and this cigarette appeared as a trade commodity at that time, in addition to selling locally, there will be many foreign tobacco operators will buy this cigarette to sell.
Because the cigarette shell was also printed with Beijing's Tiananmen Square, this also planted a desire in the hearts of people in other cities to go to Beijing to see Tiananmen Square.
Although this cigarette was later discontinued, it was also re-sold through some other improvements, becoming a continuation of the Beijing brand of cigarettes.
When Maoist ideology prevailed, this cigarette for the people brand can be said to be sold and at its peak, and both businessmen and ordinary people will choose to buy this cigarette.
And because it is close to Chairman Mao's thoughts, the price of this cigarette is very cheap, and the initial price is 3 cents a box.
The design of the cover of the Dadao brand cigarettes is the broadsword worn by the Eighth Route Army on the mainland, so as the name suggests, the sales scope of this cigarette is only for the army, and it is generally not available outside.
And during the 60s, even in the army, this cigarette was only available to those above the platoon commander.
Few people have heard of Admiralty cigarettes, but like Osaga cigarettes, they are no strangers to those who came from the military in the 60s.
Compared with the big knife brand cigarettes, this can be called "exclusive to the army" in the true sense, and it can almost only be bought above the battalion level.
Friendship brand cigarettes are typical old cigarettes, because in the sixties and seventies, the appearance of cigarettes involving friendship, happy events, etc., was almost always red.
There are relatively few people who keep this cigarette for themselves, most people will choose to buy it when visiting relatives and friends, as a door-to-door gift, and at the same time, when someone is ready to get married, if the woman's father smokes, the man's father will choose Double Happiness and this friendship brand cigarette as a gift.
The mango brand is similar to many fruit-flavored cigarettes today, and it is considered a fruit cigarette in the early days, and there are more people who buy it because of its special taste.
However, not everyone liked mango at the time, so after this cigarette became popular for a while, it was no longer sold, and if it was replaced with grapes or apples, it would probably be a big seller.
People who have not seen this cigarette in the 80s have seen it, and many people will mistakenly think it is the Yellow Crane Tower when they see the word Yellow Crane, but the type of this cigarette is different from other flue-cured tobacco and cigarettes, it is a cigar-type cigarette, so it is also a mid-to-high-end type, but because of this, the cigar-type is not a popular cigarette type, so it has slowly disappeared.
Guanting cigarettes are regarded as ration cigarettes for old smokers, because the price is very cheap, a box is 2 cents locally, and 4 cents when sold abroad.
Therefore, when the audience of this cigarette was sold, it was set on the peasant masses, so the sales time of this tobacco was relatively long, and later with the development of tobacco, this cigarette was discontinued, and it was also issued after re-packaging after improvement.
Sheep brand cigarettes, many old smokers may have memories, the younger generation of people have not even heard of this package, this cigarette is similar to Guanting cigarettes, the price is also very low.
However, unlike Guanting cigarettes, the tobacco of this cigarette is very resistant to burning, so it is very popular among migrant workers.
Chungeng brand cigarettes and Fengshou brand cigarettes at that time are the same name effect, mainly an expectation of crop land, this cigarette was initially sold for seven cents a pack.
In the sixties and seventies, it was a cigarette that millions of people in New China liked very much, and during the supply and marketing cooperatives, this cigarette also needed to be purchased in limited quantities with tobacco coupons.
The big front door is the favorite of old smokers when they are young, but it is also the most difficult to buy, because it is more popular and this cigarette is generally circulated in foreign trade, and the big front door is only sold for 4 cents a box after the hardcover with tin foil, and the mellow taste and slight sweetness make many smokers like it very much.
However, with the production problems of the Shanghai cigarette factory in the later period, Daqianmen also slowly began to be eliminated, and only some state-owned specific cigarette production could be maintained, such as Zhonghua, Peony and so on.
Daqianmen can only be resold to other provincial capitals for production, but although it continues to be produced, the old formula and packaging are no longer there, and the real Daqianmen in the hearts of old smokers has been discontinued.
Dongfeng brand cigarettes sound particularly familiar, will make people can't help but think of Dongfeng Motor, in fact, this cigarette is older than Dongfeng Motor, produced by Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory, the taste is also relatively mellow, but because of the problem of tobacco is not resistant to burning, this cigarette has been slowly eliminated by the public.
As classic old cigarettes, they always contain a unique cultural connotation and people's feelings, and cigarettes are often used as a social medium, used in interpersonal communication and business activities, cigarettes in the sixties and seventies have not been found to be proven, the only thing that remembers them is the old smokers.
Cigarettes from different periods have also witnessed the history of different periods, will a box of cigarettes with a sense of age still evoke your memories, looking at the endless cigarette brands that are now emerging, do old smokers still remember what brand of cigarettes they once smoked for the first time?