Editing Cigarette card (section)

==History==
Beginning in 1879, cards depicting actresses, [[baseball]] players, [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] chiefs, [[boxing|boxers]], national flags, or wild animals were issued by the U.S.-based [[Allen & Ginter]] tobacco company. These are considered to be some of the first cigarette cards.<ref>{{cite web|last=Shaw |first=James A. |url=http://www.wclynx.com/burntofferings/adsallen_and_ginter.html |title=Allen & Ginter's champions |access-date=2006-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060405192229/http://www.wclynx.com/burntofferings/adsallen_and_ginter.html |archive-date=2006-04-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other tobacco companies such as [[Goodwin & Co.]] soon followed suit. They first emerged in the U.S., then the UK, then, eventually, in many other countries.

[[File:'Daisy' Greville, Countess of Warwick, Player's Cigarettes card, post 1890.jpg|thumb|left|130px|[[Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick|Daisy Greville]] featured on a Player's card, c. 1890]]
In the UK, [[W.D. & H.O. Wills]] in 1887 were one of the first companies to include advertising cards with their cigarettes, but it was [[John Player & Sons]] in 1893 that produced one of the first general interest sets 'Castles and Abbeys'.

[[File:Walter bull ogden.jpg|thumb|right|130px|English footballer [[Walter Bull]] depicted on an Ogden's card, c. 1906]]
[[File:Walter Smaill, Montreal Wanderers.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Walter Smaill]] illustration on an [[Imperial Tobacco Canada]] card, c. 1910]]
[[File:Taddy Clown.jpg|thumb|130px|An original Taddy's Clowns and Circus Artistes card]]
Thomas Ogden of Liverpool soon followed in 1894 and in 1895, Wills produced their first set 'Ships and Sailors'. In 1896 Wills produced the first set in the United Kingdom with a sporting theme called 'Cricketers'.<ref name=sparta/> In 1906, Ogden's produced a set of [[association football]] cards depicting footballers in their club colours, in one of the first full-colour sets.

Each set of cards typically consisted of 25 or 50 related subjects, but series of over 100 cards per issue are known. Popular themes were 'beauties' (famous actresses, film stars and models), sporters (in the U.S. mainly baseball, in the rest of the world mainly [[association football|football]] and [[cricket]]), nature, military heroes and uniforms, heraldry,<ref>[http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Heraldic_tobacco_cards Heraldic cigarette and tobacco cards]</ref> locomotives, and city views.

[[Imperial Tobacco Canada]] manufactured the first [[hockey card|ice hockey cards]] ever for the inaugural [[National Hockey League|NHL]] season. There were a total of 36 cards in the set, each one featured an illustration of a player.<ref>[http://starrcards.com/history-of-hockey-cards/ History of Hockey Cards] on Starr Cards website</ref> After [[World War I]], only one more cigarette set was issued, during 1924–25.

Today, for example, sports and military historians study these cards for details on uniform design.<ref>[http://www.collectionscanada.ca/hockey/024002-2001-e.html?PHPSESSID=rq9jcm5ucr4uim576lt6808ik4 Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001083136/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/hockey/024002-2001-e.html?PHPSESSID=rq9jcm5ucr4uim576lt6808ik4 |date=2007-10-01 }} at Library and Archives Canada</ref>

Some very early cigarette cards were printed on [[silk]] which was then attached to a paper backing. They were discontinued in order to save paper during [[World War II]], and never fully reintroduced thereafter.

[[Doral (cigarette)|Doral]], an [[R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company]] brand, started printing cigarette cards in the year 2000. These were the first cigarette cards from a major manufacturer since the 1940s,<ref>{{cite magazine|url = http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BDW/is_3_42/ai_69277563 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050719081434/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BDW/is_3_42/ai_69277563 |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2005-07-19 |title = Doral Revives Collector Cards with Purchase |magazine = [[Brandweek]] |date = 2001-01-15 |access-date = 2006-06-21}}</ref> although the small company Carreras in the UK issued cigarette cards with Turf brand cigarettes for a short period in the 1950s and 1960s, Black Cat brand in 1976.<ref>[http://www.franklyncards.com/one/cighist.htm Franklyn Cards: A brief history of cigarette cards<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322211542/http://www.franklyncards.com/one/cighist.htm |date=March 22, 2007 }}</ref><ref>Catalogues, for example: Murray Cards (International). Catalogue of Cigarette & Other Trade Cards. 3.ed. (1981)</ref>  Furthermore, card-like coupons with special offers have often been included in cigarette packets over the years.

The first set of "Doral Celebrate America" cards featured the 50 states in two releases, 2000 and 2001. Later themes include American [[festivals]], [[Automobile|cars]], [[national parks]], and 20th century events.

[[Natural American Spirit]], another R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company brand, also includes cigarette cards on their packs, with information on such things as windpower, diversity, and their farmers.

Philip Morris USA started including "Information For Smokers" cigarette cards in certain packs. One provides information on quitting smoking and the other states that "Light, "Ultra Light", "Mild", "Medium", and "Low Tar" cigarettes are just as harmful as "Full Flavor" ones.