Chesterfield (cigarette)

Chesterfield is a brand of cigarette made by Altria. It was named for Chesterfield Area, Virginia. It was a standout amongst the most perceived brands of the early and mid twentieth century, yet deals have declined consistently throughout the years. Chesterfields were initially delivered by the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Organization. In 1999, Liggett sold the L&M, Songbird and Chesterfield brands to Philip Morris Organizations Inc. The brand is as yet being made today; it is still prominent in Europe, yet has been missing from U.S. promoting for a long time.

In the 1930s through the 1950s, Chesterfield supported prominent radio projects. A mid one was the radio arrangement Music That Fulfills which was telecast in 1932-1933. The Chesterfield Hour (1939–1944) included enormous groups, for example, those of Paul Whiteman and Glenn Mill operator and Fred Waring. It was taken after quickly by Johnny Mercer's Chesterfield Music Shop (1944) and afterward the Chesterfield Dinner Club (1944-1949) which highlighted Perry Como and Jo Stafford with Peggy Lee supplanting Stafford on a few scenes starting in 1948. Johnny Mercer initially composed the pop standard melody "Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)" as the signature tune for his Chesterfield radio program; the topic for Como's Chesterfield Dinner Club was the premise for "Smoke Dreams", secured by Jo Stafford, k.d. lang, and different craftsmen.

Liggett and Myers supported Trawl, both on radio and on television, amid the 1950s. The 1954 showy form of Trawl likewise had Chesterfield item arrangements, for example, ads in scenes occurring at medication stores and news counters, or cigarette candy machines. Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday was seen smoking Chesterfields in the motion picture and television arrangement. Likewise in the 1950s, Gunsmoke on both radio and television was comparably supported basically by Chesterfields and L&Ms. Toward the end of A Twilight Zone, for a few seasons Bar Serling every now and again smoked and advanced Chesterfields.

In the 1940s and 1950s Ronald Reagan, Bounce Trust, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, and Arthur Godfrey were among Chesterfield's legitimate representatives, Chesterfield being one of the essential patrons of the radio and television projects of these stars amid that time.

Ian Fleming often makes references to various smoking items in his well known James Bond books. The Chesterfield brand of cigarette are depicted as one of Bond's top picks as found in the 1959 book Goldfinger. In this novel, James Bond requests of Goldfinger's hireling, "Oddjob, I need a considerable measure of nourishment, rapidly. What's more, a jug of whiskey, pop and ice. Additionally a container of Chesterfields, ruler size..."

Long-term school football mentor Paul "Bear" Bryant smoked unfiltered Chesterfields, regularly a few packs for every day. The propensity was the principle contributing variable to his deadly heart assault in 1983 at age 69.

In Quentin Tarantino's 1992 motion picture Store Pooches, Mr. White offers Mr. Pink a Chesterfield cigarette trying to quiet him. In another Tarantino-penned motion picture, 1993's Actual Sentiment, Clarence Worley's dad, Clifford, smokes a Chesterfield before his execution on account of Blue Lou Boyle's consigliere, Vincenzo Coccotti.

In Donald Fagen's 1982 title track of The Nightfly; "I have a lot of java and Chesterfield Rulers"

In Jack Clayton's 1974 adjustment of The Incomparable Gatsby, Gatsby (Robert Redford) parts the last Chesterfield in his pack with Scratch Carraway (Sam Waterston) while the two visit on Carraway's patio.

In the famous HBO television arrangement Promenade Realm, Operator Knox is seen giving three packs of Chesterfield cigarettes to Clayton.

In Jim Jarmusch's 1984 film More bizarre Than Heaven the principle characters smoke Chesterfields, now and again examining where they can buy them.

In the Coen siblings 2001 The Man Who Wasn't There, a high contrast neo-noir film set in 1949, the principle character is an unfiltered Chesterfield chain smoker.

Humphrey Bogart as often as possible showed up in Chesterfield notices. A scene from the motion picture To Have and Have Not (film) demonstrates him with a pack of Chesterfields.

In the 2005 film Journals of a Geisha, after Pumpkin has inundated herself in World War II American trooper society, she tells Sayuri that she just smokes Chesterfields any longer.

The 1992 Jawbreaker tune "Chesterfield Lord" is named for the extra large chesterfield. The melody alludes to the cigarette twice. To begin with, the vocalist imparts a chesterfield to a lady he meets in a parking area. Later, toward the end of the tune, the vocalist gives a chesterfield ruler to the lady he has been singing about.

Jake Soul (John Belushi) smoked Chesterfield cigarettes in the 1980 film Soul Siblings. Close to the end of the scene at Sway's Nation Shelter, Jake is seen quickly blazing a straightened and about void pack of Chesterfield cigarettes, imagining it is his performer's union ID card.

The Chesterfield Lords are a stone band named after the cigarette.