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| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Tobacco |
| Founded | 2010 |
Area served |
United States |
| Owner | David Sley |
| Website | www |
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Footnotes / references Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1 | |
Hestia Tobacco is an American boutique all-natural tobacco company, founded by David Sley in 2010. The companies first product was launched in 2013 and was known as the producer of filtered cigars using all-natural tobacco, until releasing all-natural cigarettes in November 2022.
It is one of the first American Tobacco companies to be started in more than twenty years, in part because of regulatory difficulties with the FDA, which prevented any new products from being released since 2011
Branding
The name comes from the Greek goddess of the hearth. Hestia cigarette boxes are bright orange with a “Lichenstein-like design” on the front and literary quotes from the likes of Hemingway and O’Hara are printed on the back. As stated in the Observer in an interview with founder David Sley “What I do is produce the purest tobacco on the market”.