In 1935, ATC began to sponsor Your Hit Parade, featuring North Carolina tobacco auctioneer Lee Aubrey 'Speed' Riggs (later, another tobacco auctioneer from Lexington, Kentucky, F.E. Rolfe and his Lucky Strike Orchestra' for Edison Records. Rolfe was performing on radio and recording as 'B.A. By 1928, the bandleader and vaudeville producer B. Lucky Strike's association with radio music programs began during the 1920s on NBC. Lucky Strike factories in Durham, NC, pictured in 2014 In 1905, the company was acquired by the American Tobacco Company (ATC). Patterson of Richmond, Virginia, in 1871 as cut plug and later a cigarette. Ī well-circulated urban legend holds that the name 'Lucky Strike' referred to the presence of marijuana in some cigarette packs. The brand name was inspired by the gold rushes of the era, during which only about four miners in a thousand were fortunate enough to strike gold, and was intended to connote a top-quality blend. Patterson in 1871, and evolved into a cigarette by the early 1900s. Lucky Strike was introduced as a brand of chewing tobacco by American firm R.A. Individual cigarettes of the brand are often referred to colloquially as 'Luckies.' Lucky Strike is an American brand of cigarettes owned by the British American Tobacco group. ( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. This article contains content that is written like an advertisement.

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