History of Dunhill cigarettes

Alfred Dunhill opened a tobacconist’s shop in St James’s in 1907, which had the atmosphere of a gentlemen’s club and offered all kinds of tobacco and smokers’ requisites.

By the 1920s he had shops in New York, Toronto and Paris.

By the mid-1960s, Dunhill stores could be found in 100 countries, including Hong Kong and Japan. He started machine-rolling cigarettes and introduced his own brand of Dunhill cigarettes.

The first Dunhill cigarette came out in 1908, and was, less than glamorously, called the Absorbal.

It was designed to counter any perceived health risk from cigarettes and had a world first a cotton wool filter-tip. It slogan was the ‘hygienic Cigarette.
History of Dunhill cigarettes