Kent (cigarette)

Kent (cigarette)

Kent is a brand of cigarettes possessed by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Organization. 

The brand is named after Herbert Kent, a previous official at Lorillard Tobacco Organization. 

Somewhere around 1970 and 1990 Kent was the most requested cigarette in Romania and in some parts of the residential business sector utilized as installment or pay off. In the last part of the interim, Kent was no more accessible in consistent retail, being sold formally just in hard money shops. Clearly, bootleg market was flourishing, most Kent being pirated in by those moderately couple of Romanians who were permitted to travel abroad, sea&air team, discretionary staff, and so on. 

Broadly perceived by numerous as the principal famous separated cigarette, Kent was presented by the Lorillard Tobacco Organization after the production of a progression of articles in Peruser's Overview in 1952 entitled "Disease by the Container", that frightened American purchasers into searching out a channel brand during an era when most brands were filterless. (Emissary cigarettes had been the first to present channels, in 1936.) Kent broadly touted its "acclaimed micronite channel" and guaranteed purchasers the "Best wellbeing assurance ever." Offers of Kent soar, and it has been evaluated that in the initial four years that Kent was available, Lorillard sold nearly 13 billion Kent cigarettes.From Walk 1952 until in any event May 1956, notwithstanding, the Micronite channel in Kent cigarettes contained cancer-causing blue asbestos. It has been associated that numerous cases with mesothelioma have been brought on particularly by smoking the first Kent cigarettes. Lorillard unobtrusively changed the channel material from asbestos to the more basic cellulose acetic acid derivation in mid 1956. Kent kept on growing up until the late 1960s, then started a long, enduring decrease as more sifted cigarette brands promising even lower tar (and speaking to smokers' yearnings for a "more secure" smoke) were presented. 

Nonetheless, Kent kept on staying in the main ten cigarette brand list until 1979. In 1977, Lorillard sold the abroad privileges of Kent and the greater part of its different brands and today Kents produced outside the U.S. are property of English American Tobacco. On June 15, 2014 Reynolds American offered to purchase the Lorillard tobacco organization for $27.4 billion and compelling June 12, 2015 the Kent brand turned into the property of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Organization.