Cope's and the Promotion of Tobacco in Victorian England

A.V. Seaton

This paper charts the rise of Cope's - a household name in the tobacco industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cope’s and the Promotion of Tobacco in Victorian England

A. V. Seaton, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the name of Cope’s was as much of a household name in the tobacco industry as Players and Wills today. The Company’s brands of snuff, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco were enjoyed by millions of smokers at home and overseas, and known to millions of non-smokers through the extensive and highly visible publicity that marked Cope’s operation.

Its success offers an almost quintessential example of the small family firm that became a national institution, going...

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