Smoking is a brand of
rolling paper
Rolling paper is a specialty paper used for making cigarettes (commercially manufactured filter cigarettes and individually made roll-your-own cigarettes). Rolling papers are packs of several cigarette-size sheets, often folded inside a cardbo ...
s, manufactured by Miquel y Costas in
Barcelona, Spain. According to their website, they were one of the earliest factories to produce rolling papers. Smoking offers different color packages to differentiate the weights or materials of the paper inside.
History
1725 is the earliest documented reference of this company. At that time the Miquel family made paper by hand in mills driven by the Anoia River. It was not until almost 100 years later that the Miquel family started specializing in cigarette paper. In 1879, the company moved production to
La Pobla de Claramunt
La Pobla de Claramunt is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Anoia in Catalonia,
Spain. It is situated on the edge of the Òdena Basin at the entrance to the Capellades Gorge. The town
is dominated by Claramunt castle, on a hilltop some ...
and founded the company Miquel y Costas Hermanos.
In 1929, the company was incorporated and took its present name, Miquel y Costas & Miquel S.A. Cigarette paper booklets first appeared in the 19th century and their international brand, Smoking, was introduced in 1924. Miquel y Costas is now one of the largest cigarette paper manufacturers in the world. They manufacture Smoking, Pure Hemp, Guarani, Bugler, Bob Marley, SMK, Mantra and
Bambu brand papers. They also produce many private label brands for other companies.
See also
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List of rolling papers
Rolling papers are small sheets, rolls, or leaves of paper which are sold for rolling cigarettes either by hand or with a rolling machine. When rolling a cigarette, one fills the rolling paper with tobacco, cannabis, cloves, damiana, hash o ...
References
Cigarette rolling papers
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