When Columbus discovered the New World, he brought the seeds of tobacco back to Europe, and tobacco soon spread throughout the world.
In 1880, in order to expand the influence of the Austro-Hungarian cigarette manufacturers, in order to expand the influence of the product, in the cigarette products on the original sticker with a logo, that is, "Neil brand" - the world's earliest birth of the cigarette label, and then for the world's cigarette manufacturers to follow the example of the cigarette manufacturers. 1902, Tianjin, the Beiyang Tobacco Company Limited by the production of the " Dragon Ball " brand trademark, the "Dragon Ball" brand, the "Dragon Ball" trademark, the "Dragon Ball" brand, the "Dragon Ball" brand, the "Dragon Ball" brand, the "Dragon Ball" brand. Ltd. in Tianjin in 1902, is the earliest cigarette trademark in China.
Toward the end of the 19th century, Chinese people were still accustomed to smoking earth-made tobacco until the world's cigarette trust, British American Tobacco, came to China to set up factories, local production and marketing of easy-to-carry cigarettes, and people gradually switched to smoking cigarettes. Since then, the mechanism of cigarette production in China. Cigarettes, and then there is the wrapping paper, printed with the brand number and pictures, that is, today's so-called cigarette trademarks - cigarette labels. The first cigarette brands imported into China were the American "Little Beauty", "Pinhai", "Pedal Car", "Turkey", and the British "Pink". "Tuan Pan", "Three Battery", "Old Knife" of British and "Peacock ", "Phoenix" and so on.
The Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement promoted the development of China's national economy, in the birthplace of China's tobacco industry, Shanghai, the national cigarette industry also took shape. early 20th century, more than 20 national cigarette factories have been opened in Shanghai. By 1924, Shanghai's Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company and Huacheng Tobacco Company became the two largest national cigarette factories, and they eventually became the symbol of the national cigarette industry after a rough competition with foreign-funded cigarette factories. From the beginning of the 20th century to the 1940s, the more than 100 national cigarette factories in Shanghai alone produced more than 1,000 kinds of cigarette brand names, such as Nanyang's "Golden Dragon", "Platinum Dragon", "Bank", "Daikan", "Daikan", and "Daikan". Bank", "Dalianzhu", "Double Axe", "Beautiful", "Golden Rat", "Three Rats" of Huacheng. "Bank", "Dalianzhu", "Double Axe", Huacheng's "Beautiful", "Golden Mouse", "Three Flags", "Fenfang", etc., all of which were very popular for a while.
Before the founding of New China, cigarette labels included both national industrial cigarette labels and imported ones. After the introduction of cigarettes into China, foreigners tried their best to form a monopoly in China by all means until 1952, when the foreign companies were nationalized, ending their more than half a century's history in China. The national tobacco factories, in order to survive, competed fiercely with the foreign companies in the difficult process of development, recaptured part of the market and promoted the development of China's tobacco industry. In the hundred years of tobacco labeling, whether it is "Beautiful", "Golden Rat", "Patriotic", or "Chinese Cigarettes", which were created in the early stage of the national industry, or "Chinese Cigarettes", which advocates that national products can save the country and that Chinese should smoke Chinese cigarettes to resist foreign products. Crusaders" and "Golden Leopard", which were created at the beginning of the national industry, or "Shanghai", "Yellow Cab" and "Haha Haha", which reflect the human feelings of a certain era. "
The tobacco label is a product of the times, reflecting and recording history objectively, making it a product of the times.
"Old Knife", "Pinhai", "Hardman" and other imported tobacco labels also recorded the imperialist invasion and attempts to monopolize the historical facts of China's tobacco industry, and became the historical Witness and study of tobacco history of the precious information.
The design and printing of cigarette labels and their various changes have gone through a long stage, and these changes reflect the changes and progress of the times. Today's cigarette labels with elaborate design, fine printing, exquisite paper, has become a practical product of today's packaging culture. With the development of society, manufacturers pay more and more attention to the value of the brand, pay attention to the exquisite design of the cigarette label pattern, the selection of superior, to bring people spiritual enjoyment. Cigarette label with its historical and cultural continuity, bright and colorful artistic style, by the majority of cigarette label enthusiasts competing collection, appreciation.
Nowadays, the price of cigarette labels varies from ten dollars to several thousand, depending on their own hobbies and needs.
The cigarette label printing industry is a highly market-oriented industry. At the same time, the industry is also a very low degree of industrial concentration, fully competitive industry. In recent years, China's cigarette industry has maintained stable growth.
According to the statistics of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (SATMA), the whole industry is in a basically balanced situation of production and sales. Cigarette companies in strict accordance with the national plan to organize production and operation to maintain a basic balance of cigarette production and sales. Accordingly, the market demand for cigarette labeling industry also remains stable.