Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics/Getty ImagesTobacco cards were used as stiffeners to protect cigarette packs. About 370 million were produced. The Monster had taken control. My wife Tejal held a ...

BEIJING-Housewife Li Jiu would check her son’s belongings every other day to make sure that he was not playing with cigarette cards, which are made by cutting up old cigarette boxes and folding them ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Reviving a pastime that all but vanished in the 1940s, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is offering trading cards of all 50 states on packs of Doral cigarettes — a marketing campaign ...

Chinese authorities are becoming increasingly alarmed by a growing craze for children to collect “cigarette cards,” which is fueling a thriving nationwide black market. Children across the country ...

SINGAPORE: Chinese authorities are moving to ban the sale and use of “cigarette cards” by minors, some who have gone to great lengths to acquire used cigarette packs to play the popular schoolyard ...

SCRANTON – The lot of rare baseball cards that included a Christy Mathewson sold at auction for $27,000. The card of the Hall of Fame pitcher who grew up in Factoryville was in a lot among 25 early ...

In late 1976 Eric Spare, a young teen-ager, was poking around his grandfather’s attic in the Philadelphia area when he discovered a small cigar box containing about 85 baseball tobacco cards. Eric's ...

My last post on Spare focused attention on the fabled T206 tobacco cards he collected. In addition there were 27 T205 Gold Borders from 1911, a set long overshadowed by the T206s. The T205s’ ...