Origins: In 1934 a particularly vicious rumor campaign aimed at disrupting sales of Chesterfield cigarettes went into effect. Up and down the Atlantic seaboard, then all across the U.S., the whispered ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today’s archive page is from Jan. 8, 1935. An ad for Chesterfield cigarettes published in the Advance highlights their taste. The ad reads: “Long speeches have been made about ...

A New York man has been charged with possessing with the intent to distribute more than 700 cartons of Virginia cigarettes after he was arrested during a traffic stop in Chesterfield County. Khaled ...

Chesterfield had the rest of the tobacco industry chain-smoking nervously. Chesterfield’s maker, Liggett & Myers, had brought out the first king-size version of its top brand, identical except for ...