Vogue (cigarette)
Cigarette brand
Vogue is a cigarette brand, currently owned and manufactured by British American Tobacco. Vogue is marketed primarily towards female customers as a means to improve physical appearance and appetite.
History
Vogue’s “style” was based on the 1950s couture captured by Henry Clarke.
In 1999, the line of Vogue cigarettes emerged from an alliance of the British-American Tobacco Company with its British opponent Rothmans International companies. The "Vogue Superslims" and "Vogue Superslims Menthol" were launched in 1987.
In 2005, the Vogue Arome line was released, and it was in the European market until 2006. In March 2007, Vogue Blanche and Vogue Noire were launched.
The manufacturers announced an image renewal in August 2007.
Markets
The brand is or was sold in countries like the United States, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, South Africa, and many more countries.
“Vogue (cigarette)” enters the record as cigarette brand. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vogue, cigarette and Cigarette can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q647541. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999, 1987, 2005 and 2006.
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