{"id":15487,"date":"2026-03-15T22:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:56:45","slug":"big-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/big-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_15488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15488\" style=\"width: 1300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ch264c1-Philip-Morris-I-95.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ch264c1-Philip-Morris-I-95.jpg\" alt=\"monumental cigarette object \" width=\"1300\" height=\"1105\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15488\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlboro was founded by British tobacconist<br \/>Philip Morris, who opened a shop on Bond Street, London, in 1847, selling tobacco and rolled cigarettes. Following his death in 1873, his family continued the business, eventually opening a factory on Great Marlborough Street, which inspired the brand name.<br \/>Founder: Philip Morris (1835\u20131873).<br \/>Origin: The company started in 1847 in London, with the brand Marlboro officially launched in 1924 as a luxury, woman-targeted cigarette.<br \/>Name Origin: The name comes from Great Marlborough Street in London, where the company had a factory.<br \/>Evolution: Originally marketed as a woman\u2019s cigarette in the 1920s with the slogan &#8220;Mild as May,&#8221; it was rebranded in the 1950s using the &#8220;Marlboro Man&#8221; to target men, becoming the world&#8217;s top-selling cigarette brand.<br \/>Ownership: The brand is currently owned by Philip Morris USA (Altria) in the US and Philip Morris International elsewhere.&#8211;Gemini<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSixty years ago Richmond, Virginia smelled like tobacco, lots of leaf stored in warehouses. I thought Ligget &#038; Myers and Philip Morris were local companies. Wrong.<br \/>\nThis object was (is?) on the west side of I-95 south of Richmond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty years ago Richmond, Virginia smelled like tobacco, lots of leaf stored in warehouses. I thought Ligget &#038; Myers and Philip Morris were local companies. Wrong. This object was (is?) on the west side of I-95 south of Richmond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[102,33,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-102","category-road","category-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15490,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}