Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1878 — Grant’s Cigar, and Its Effect. [ARTICLE]

Grant’s Cigar, and Its Effect.

Gen. Grant’s inevitable cigar is credited with greatly promoting the export of American tobacco to England. Soon after he reached Great Britain he met a New York tobacconist and complained about the “devilish bad” cigars they have over there. The New Yorker drew some American ones from his pockets, and Grant, while enjoying one of them, asked the giver why he didn’t introduce them in England. The tobacconist took the hint, sent over samples of his choicest brands, advertised well, and has already built up such a trade that he visited the Treasury Department the other day to see about paying the tax cn 90,000 cigars he had just shipped to England.