On the Zhonghua cigarette box, it says that a cigarette of incense paper is called a leaf of incense paper. The cigarettes inside the hard-shell package are purer and the tobacco is thicker. Generally, there are two layers of soft wrapping paper, the inner one is called aluminum platinum paper, and the outer one is called label paper.

The hard box has a thicker lining between the inner and outer packaging, and the outer trademark packaging paper is thicker, which increases the hardness of the packaging and is more conducive to protecting the goods.

Introduction to cigarettes

Cigarettes are a type of tobacco products. The production method is to dry the tobacco, cut it into shreds, and then roll it into a cylindrical strip with a length of about 120mm and a diameter of 10mm. When smoking, light one end and inhale the smoke with your mouth at the other end. Cigarettes were first popular in Türkiye, where local people liked to roll tobacco into newspapers and smoke it.

During the Crimean War, British soldiers learned how to smoke from the Ottoman Empire soldiers at that time, and then spread it to different places. Most cigarettes contain more than just tobacco. In 1558, sailors brought tobacco seeds back to Portugal, and then spread them throughout Europe.

In 1612, British colonial official John Rolfe planted tobacco on a large scale in Jamestown, Virginia, and began tobacco trade. Tobacco was introduced to China in the mid-16th century. The first to be introduced was sun-dried tobacco, which has been cultivated for more than 400 years.