My collection lists the producer and the trade mark owner for each pack. Please don't take these informations too serious - since globalization makes things quite complicate. I can often only guess or depend on informations I found on other internet sites. Today there are mainly global players and some national manufactures which are selling under thousands of different brand names using partly names which have been private cigarette producers in former days. Most packages show just one company name without any information if this is the trade mark owner, the producer, the license taker or the distributor.

Most wanted cigarettes for my collection:

	Nil (from Austria) Introduced in 1901 by Kaiserlich Königliche Tabak-Regie (the Austrian Tobacco Monopoly) it was one of the most beutiful packs ever at Austria until the end of the monarchy when it changed to a simple grey pack. Left version around 1905, right version around 1915
	Wooden-Kimona Nails (from USA) It seems to be the very first pack with death as the subject. Introduced in 1923 by Batt Brothers Tobacco Company it uses a common slang expression of the 1920's - "wooden kimona", which means coffin. I believe it's quite remarkable that already 80 years ago a tobacco company called it's product a coffin nail.

Special thanks to following people which helped me with my collection: