Tobacco tins were very common among miners. Unable to smoke down the mines, due to obvious fire risks, the miners would instead chew 'twist' tobacco. 'Twist' is made from dark- fired leaf ...

This spectacular automaton knows how to smoke cigarettes. This antique is rare and from the 1880s. It belongs to the ...

According to historians, James Buchanan Duke came up with the idea of hand-crafting cigarettes (known as pre-rolled tobacco back then) in the 1880s, when he and his brother, Benjamin Duke ...