page_title: Murad (cigarette)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Murad (cigarette) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: One of the first basketball cards
context_page_description: Murad was a brand of cigarettes.
context_section_description: Turkish tobacco is sun-cured, which makes it more aromatic and, like flue-cured tobacco, more acidic than air or smoke-cured tobacco, thus more suitable for cigarette production.
  In the early 1900s, manufactures of Turkish cigarettes tripled their sales and became legitimate competitors to leading brands. 
  The New York-based Greek tobacconist Soterios Anargyros produced the hand-rolled Murad  cigarettes, made of pure Turkish tobacco.
  Lorillard acquired the Murad brand in 1911 through the dissolution of the Cigarette Trust, explaining the high quality of the Murad advertisements in the following years.
caption: One of the first Basketball cards issued in 1910 by Murad Cigarettes, featuring Xavier College
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