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cigarette card
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cigarette card

Card included in packets of cigarettes, bearing a printed view, drawing, portrait, or other illustration, usually one of a numbered series. Cigarette cards originated in the USA in the 1870s and continued to be issued until World War II. They are now collector's items.



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