Gallery of Famous Smokers

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On this page, you'll find various things of interest.

How cigarettes are made

This is a translation of the report that Uwe Geyer and Sylvia Malitz of Forces Austria made of their visit to a cigarette factory in Hainburg, Austria, late february, 2004.

Note: Italics were added by Joop's Unique Services!

Most tobaccos come in bales of 200 kilos. Oriental tobaccos however come in bales of 30 kilos. In this storehouse (a former monastry), 7 million kilos of the world's best tobaccos are stored.
The cost price per kilo varies, depending on quality and sort, between € 1.45 and 2.20...

Note: 1 kilo is enough for about 1,000 cigarettes!

The tobaccos are blended in special machines. This blend is being moistened, cut and again dried. Thereafter it will be flavoured with special aromas, which are of course different for each cigarette type.
BTW: A cigarette (tobacco, flavour, paper and filter) is a pure biological product.

Note: Throwing a cigarette butt on the street is not recommended, however, it's not such a big crime as we are told!

The conveyor belt is running. Employees here in Hainburg work in four shifts to prevent any decay of the tobacco!

Fascinating images...! A machine full of ready-to-smoke cigarettes...

...and a machine that looks like a bearded face.

This is where the cartons are made.
Here in Hainburg, 60 million cigarettes leave the factory each day, which makes this factory of economic importance for the city and region. Most cigarettes that are manufactured here, are exported to other European countries.

Just 'next door', one single cigarette costs about 17 cents. Some 76% of this price are taxes etc. This means that about 14 cents per cigarette are taken away from the customer: For the state, the EU etc.

Do we want this?

The tobacco plant

I think that you've already found some pages about Christopher Columbus and the Indians. Maybe you found some botanical information on the Nicotiana tabacum as well. So you've read a lot about tobacco and smoking, but actually, this was not what you were looking for... No, everything you wanted to know about tobacco, but never dared to ask is on Coffinails!

Recent updates

2009
14 Dec:	Added Alfred (Freddy) Heineken.
27 Jul:	Added Brigitte Bardot and Anna Kournikova.
11 Jun:	Added Pippi Longstocking.
21 Jan:	Added Groucho Marx.
20 Jan:	Added Barack Obama.
2008
10 Dec:	Added Jim Croce.
01 Sep:	Added Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
22 Aug:	Added Kurt Vonnegut.
11 Aug:	Added Miles Davis and Kate Moss.
07 Aug:	Added Bob Dylan.
05 Aug:	Added B.J. Palmer and Bertolt Brecht.
02 Jul:	Added Sigmund Freud.
11 Mar:	Added Mark Twain.
2007
05 Nov:	Added Howard Carter.
14 Sep:	Added Al Pacino and changed Whoopi Goldberg's picture. (Thanks to visitor Lucia!)
31 Jul:	Added Oriana Fallaci.
12 Mar:	Added Pat Benatar.
26 Feb:	Added Bryan Ferry.
2006
27 Dec:	Added Gerald Ford.
08 Nov:	Updated many links.
20 Oct:	Added Rokersdag ("Smokers' Day", Dutch only) to the links page.
26 Sep:	Added Frank Zappa.
15 Aug:	Added Aaron Spelling.
26 Jun:	Added Queen Juliana of The Netherlands.
06 Jun:	Added Paul Weller.
27 Apr:	Gave this site a new look. Did some minor edits as well.
18 Apr:	Added Alexander Graham Bell and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
18 Feb:	Added a button with a link to a smokers' rights petition to the main gallery page. (Netherlands only!)
02 Jan:	Added DARY to the links page, and removed the New Year's wish.
2005
22 Dec:	Added Father Christmas or Santa Claus. Also changed the Holiday wishes on the index page.
08 Dec:	On this historical date I added John Lennon.
06 Dec:	Added C.S. Lewis.
26 Nov:	Added Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
15 Nov:	Added an important announcement about World Smokers' Day to the index page.
19 Oct:	Added Frank Sinatra.
05 Oct:	Added Theo van Gogh.
03 Oct:	Added Jaap van Wissen.
01 Oct:	Added Meg Ryan.
22 Sep:	Added Captain Haddock.
14 Sep:	Added Avril Lavigne.
03 Sep:	Placed a call to Mr. Bush on the gallery index page.
11 Aug:	Added Jean-Paul Sartre.
18 Jul:	Added Actiefront! and Actiefront! - web-log.nl to the links page.
06 Jul:	Added Sybil Danning.
15 Jun:	Added a Terror Alert :-) to the gallery index page.
07 Jun:	Added and updated some links.
26 May:	Added a link to Røgfarmen ("The Smoke Farm") to the links page (Danish only).
18 May:	Added Marilyn Monroe.
14 May:	Changed the table on the gallery index page.
09 May:	Added Camilla Parker Bowles.
28 Apr:	Added Roberto Cavalli.
27 Apr:	Added Edwin Hubble.
13 Apr:	Added links to Vrijspreker.nl and Meervrijheid.nl to the links page (both in Dutch only).
07 Apr:	Added a link to EU Nee ("EU No") to the links page.
04 Apr:	Added a link to European Smokers Against Discrimination (ESAD) to the links page.
22 Mar:	Added a FreeFind search box to the gallery index page.
14 Mar:	Added a link to Røg ("Smoke") to the links page.
12 Mar:	Added a link to SAD Ireland to the links page.
04 Mar:	Added Claudia Cardinale. Also changed the dates to the international date format.
28 Feb:	Added a link to Free Europe to the links page.
26 Feb:	Joined Ringsurf webring.
22 Feb:	Added a link to Smokershaverights.com to the links page.
09 Feb:	Added Albert Camus.
05 Feb:	Removed two announcements from the main page, and added Smokersrights.org.uk to the links page.
27 Jan:	Added a link to Forces WV Super Bowl Party.
18 Jan:	Added a thanks to PW Consulting to the gallery index page.
03 Jan:	A tolerant new year! Holiday wishes removed.
2004
23 Dec:	Added Pierce Brosnan.
22 Dec:	Added Robbie Williams.
16 Dec:	Added John R.R. Tolkien.
15 Dec:	Added Jacques Brel.
14 Dec:	Added John F. Kennedy and Russell Crowe.
13 Dec:	De Vuurvogel ("The Firebird") has a new site and a new name, and therewith they got a new banner.
07 Dec:	Added a Firefox button to the Gallery index page. This site is fully functional with the Firefox browser.
06 Dec:	Added Pablo Picasso, and added Holiday Greetings.
29 Nov:	Added Claude Monet, painted by Auguste Renoir.
22 Nov:	Added Rokersprotest ("Smokers' Protest") announcement to the gallery index page.
20 Nov:	Added Rokersprotest ("Smokers' Protest") to the links page (Dutch only).
01 Nov:	Added David Carradine and added a link to De Vuurvogel ("The Firebird").
28 Oct:	Added Piet Mondriaan (Mondrian).
27 Oct:	Added Antismokers' Brains to the links page.
26 Oct:	Added some links to the links page.
15 Oct:	Added Franklin D. Roosevelt.
13 Oct:	Moved and changed some links.
04 Oct:	Added announcement for World Smoker's Day 2004 to the gallery page and added My Choice to the links page.
10 Sep:	Added Britney Spears.
03 Sep:	Added Dr. Tobacco to the links page.
26 Aug:	Updated some links on the links page.
19 Aug:	Updated and added some links on the links page. Also removed Yespeedy MLM banners.
23 Jul:	Updated and added some links on the main gallery page.
02 Jul:	Added Thomas Alva Edison and Joanna Lumley.
11 Jun:	Updated some links.
27 May:	Added Vincent van Gogh.
29 Apr:	Added Forces Austria's "Persona non Grata" badge to the main Gallery page.
21 Apr:	Added Diego Maradona.
02 Apr:	Added Shakira.
19 Mar:	Added Roxxon to the links page.
18 Mar:	Added Mel Gibson.
15 Mar:	Added Monica Bellucci.
08 Mar:	Added the world's oldest man.
02 Mar:	Created new buttons for the red navigation bar. Also added this page.

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