Cigarette card

Author: Li Desheng
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Cigarette cards are small picture cards that were originally included in cigarette packs. One side features illustrations of landscapes, people, etc., while the other side prints cigarette advertisements or descriptions of the front illustrations. They are a type of cigarette advertising artwork. In the first half of the 20th century, with the widespread promotion of cigarettes globally, small cigarette cards became extremely popular and, alongside stamps and coins, became one of the world's three major collectibles. Cigarette cards were originally an invention of the West, and their English name is CigaretteCards, which means cigarette cards.