A running debate among readers runs in the British medical journal, Lancet. The Census for Virginia and North Carolina list 348 tobacco factories, virtually all producing chewing tobacco. Manufactured cigarettes appear. A popular early brand is Bull Durham. Some bright made it all the way back.
Bright tobacco becomes the rage in the North.
Congress passes a law calling for manufacturers to create cigar boxes on which IRS agents can paste Civil War excise tax stamps. 1st American cigarette factory opens and produces almost 20 million cigarettes. First tax levied on cigarettes. Philip Morris dies. R. J. Reynolds founds R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to produce chewing tobacco, soon producing brands like Brown's Mule, Golden Rain, Dixie's Delight, Yellow Rose, Purity.