Smoking rolling papers
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Smoking is a popular brand of cigarette rolling papers. Smoking is manufactured by: Miquel y Costas in Barcelona, Spain. They were one of the first factories to ever produce papers.
NOTICE: The Spanish manufacturer Miquel Y Costas (maker of Smoking brand and Bambu) has recently been criminally charged of using illegal cancer causing carcinogens in their cigarette paper: http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/142583/0/papel/fumar/cancer/ The manufacturer has presented an appeal to the Barcelona court and hopes to win. The Directors of the company are facing 1-4 years in jail for this crime.
[edit] 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 Anoja River. It was not until almost 100 years later that the Miquel family started specializing in cigarette paper.
In 1879 it moved production factory to La Pobla de Claramunt 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. Since then their specialized pulp, paper and booklet production combined with perpetual research has allowed them to develop new varieties of papers and booklets. Miguel Y Costas is now one of the largest paper manufacturers in the world. They also make the widely used Pure Hemp brand paper. They also produce many private label brands for other companies. As an example all Bambu brand papers, RIPS and Skunk brand papers are made by Miguel Y Costas.
