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  2. James Albert Bonsack - Wikipedia

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    James A. Bonsack was born in eastern Roanoke County, Virginia.His father, Jacob Bonsack, owned a woolen mill where James learned about industrial machinery. In 1878 he was admitted to the Lutheran Roanoke College, but decided to withdraw to work on designing a cigarette rolling machine.

  3. Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company - Wikipedia

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    During the first post-depression 1880 year, 533 million cigarettes were manufactured. [2] Until 1880 when James Albert Bonsack invented the first cigarette rolling machine, all cigarettes were rolled manually, on average about four cigarettes per minute by experienced workers. Pack of Sweet Caporal cigarettes.

  4. American Tobacco Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1882, two years after W. Duke, Sons & Company entered into the cigarette business, James Bonsack invented a cigarette-rolling machine. It produced over 133 cigarettes per minute, the equivalent of what a skilled hand roller could produce in one hour, and reduced the cost of rolling cigarettes by 50%.

  5. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In Europe, there was a desire for not only snuff, pipes and cigars, but cigarettes appeared as well. Cigar rolling and even the creation of pipe tobacco at the time was labor-intensive and, without slave labor, innovation needed to occur. [22] Bonsack's cigarette rolling machine, as shown on U.S. patent 238,640.

  6. James Buchanan Duke - Wikipedia

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    Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his sons James and Benjamin (1855–1929) took over in the 1880s. In 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco).

  7. History of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    James Bonsack, an avid craftsman, in 1881 created a machine that revolutionized cigarette production. The machine chopped the cured tobacco leaves, then dropped a certain amount of the tobacco into a long tube of paper, which the machine would then roll and push out the end where it would be sliced by the machine into individual cigarettes ...

  8. Cigar makers' strike of 1877 - Wikipedia

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    The first cigarette rolling machine was introduced in 1880 by James Albert Bonsack, while the cigar-making machine first appeared in 1889. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] As prices of cigarettes and cigars fell, cigar-making unions lost thousands of members; an estimated 56,000 jobs were lost between 1921 and 1935. [ 18 ]

  9. Cigarette machine - Wikipedia

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    A cigarette machine is a vending machine that dispenses packs of cigarettes in exchange for payment. Many modern cigarette machines require customers to swipe an identification card to prevent persons under the legal smoking age from purchasing tobacco. Because of their potential for misuse by underage persons, many jurisdictions restrict where ...