page_title: Philip Morris USA
section_title: Creation
hierarchical_section_title: Philip Morris USA / History / Creation
caption_attribution_description: English: The British tobacconist Philip Morris (1835–1873)
context_page_description: Philip Morris USA is the American tobacco division of the American tobacco corporation Altria Group.
context_section_description: The company's namesake Philip Morris was born in Whitechapel, United Kingdom in 1835, the son of a recent immigrant from Germany who had taken the name Bernard Morris. In 1847, the family opened a shop in London. The first cigarettes that Philip Morris made were in 1854 and were known as "Philip Morris English Ovals," a non-filter brand of oval-shaped cigarettes that were manufactured in very limited quantities until discontinuation in 2017.
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