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What Shanghai Smoked in 1945?

Posted: March 20th, 2016 | No Comments »

1945 – the liberation of Shanghai is approaching but it’s been a long time since BAT and other western cigarette companies have been producing in the city. So what did Shanghai smoke in early 1945? Marshal All-Six were available. Chuka Tobacco was, I think, a Japanese company producing cigarettes that looked kind of American in pack design and flavour….

Marshal All-Six cigarettes - 1945

 



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