Personalised Zippo Lighter

Our Personalized Zippo Lighter is a fantastic engraved lighter, available in 2 finishes.

Zippo are the most famous and collected lighters in the world and this one can be personalized with up to 50 characters of your choice! With either a brushed solid brass or brushed chrome finish, you really can personalize this stylish lighter to anyone's taste.

Whether you buy lighters for lighting candles, cigarettes or waving in a crowd at a boy band concert, the Personalized Zippo Lighter adds a touch of style when you need a flame to hand. Personalize the lighter with a name, message or date to create unique gift for any occasion.

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The Personalized Zippo Lighter is available in either brushed chrome or solid brushed brass
The Zippo lighter can be personalized with up to 50 characters
This personalized lighter come in a Zippo presentation box
The lighter measures 40 mm x 60 mm 13 mm

The Personalized Zippo Lighter is a fantastic gift for ages 16 to 160!
The engraved Zippo lighters are available on a UK next working day service when ordered before 11am. Standard turnaround is 10 working days from receipt of order.

An interesting fact about Zippo Lighters: The Zippo Lighter was invented by George Blaisdell in 1932 after seeing a beautifully attired gentleman using a scruffy lighter. After a few years of trial and error he got his lighters down to a smaller size that fitted into the palm of your hand with a wind shield and hinged top.

Zippo lighters to this day are renowned for their excellent quality and our Personalised Zippo Lighter raises the bar, allowing you to personalize your lighter with a message, choose the finish you desire and help create a fantastic gift. Chuck out those throwaway plastic lighters and pick up a stylish engraved Zippo, you'll never go back.

What's in the Personalized Zippo Lighter box?

From plates to pens, Find Me A Gift has personalized anniversary or birthday gifts for all the family. Our personalized gifts and ideas are suitable for mothers day, an anniversary, fathers day or as personalized birthday or Xmas presents.

Whether you would like a personalized birthday present or mothers day gift, we have something to suit. Fast UK delivery and worldwide shipping available on all personalized presents.

The Marlboro Timelines

In 1902 a British cigarette manufacturer, Philip Morris, established a corporation in New York to sell its tobacco brands, including Cambridge, Derby, and Marlboro - which was named after the street its London factory was situated on, Marlborough.

In 1924, Philip Morris introduced Marlboro as a women cigarette based on the slogan: "Mild as May". A female audience was targeted through a series of ads in 1926 depicting a feminine hand reaching for a cigarette. These advertisements featured stylish women posed in plush settings, and by the 1950s, babies were telling mom and dad what a great smoke a Marlboro was.

During World War II, however, the brand faltered and had to be taken off the market. Immediately following WWII, three new competing brands: Camel, Lucky Strike and Chesterfields surfaced with a firm hold on the consumer market. This further diminished the value of Marlboro cigarettes.

In 1942, the July issue of Reader's Digest published an article titled "Cigarette Advertising Fact and Fiction," that claimed that all cigarettes, regardless of brand, were essentially the same, and equally deadly. In 1957, Reader's Digest published an article that linked smoking with lung cancer. This is when Philip Morris saw its chance to reintroduce Marlboro and market it as the "safer" filtered brand. Consumers began feeling mislead by the established brands and dropped their old allegiances.

Unable to break completely away from smoking, due to what was later recognized as nicotine addiction, many smokers were willing to try new cigarette brands. Unfortunately for Marlboro, formerly regarded as "Mild as May," the new filters were considered an extension of previous feminine image. Consequently, Phillip Morris had to completely revise and switch its advertising strategies in order to target an old group of customers with a new concern: addicted male smokers who were afraid of acquiring lung cancer.

Marlboro was reintroduced to the nation in 1955 with the "Tattooed Man" campaign. The image of the "new Marlboro smoker as a lean, relaxed outdoorsman - a cattle rancher, a Navy officer, a flyer - whose tattooed wrist suggested a romantic past, a man who had once worked with his hands, who knew the score, who merited respect," (Esquire 6/60) proved that nothing was feminine about the filtered cigarettes.

The first advertisements spoke in a manner suggesting that the same old-fashioned flavors were being presented in a safer consumable form.

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Why is Marlboro So Popular?

Why is Marlboro selling about 80% of the world’s cigarettes? Is it because the legendary cigarettes are now b eing sold cheap? Well, there are several factors contributing to the leadership position of Marlboro cigarettes.

The first thing amongst them is that the brand has identified itself amongst the American icons of masculinity, the cowboys. All its advertisements are centered on the heroics of these glorified brave heroes of yesteryear.

Unlike using jeeps, Marlboro advertisements make use of horses which again represent originality for heroics and masculinity. Masculinity has another test which is apparently missing in competing brands.

The unmistakable hard taste, that is. This is another point for men to identify themselves with manliness. Even the Marlboro Lights are definitely harder than most regular cigarettes. Besides, almost any fresher is introduced to smoking by one who smokes Marlboro.

The original popularity of Marlboro has carried forward to the present era of cheap cigarettes at discount price, too. More than anything else, the hiking of tax on cigarettes, besides driving smokers away from neighborhood store, h! as succeeded in complementing the sale of Marlboro. Interesting, but it is more interesting to know how this occurred.

We all know that online cheap discount cigarettes sell cigarettes tax free; thus even when ordered cigarettes are delivered from across the globe, the landing cost per unit (carton) still works out to be cheaper than per-tax hike prices especially in states like New Jersey, Rhodie Island, Washington, Michigan and Arizona where increase has been over 200¢ per pack. So what does it mean to the cheap cigarettes smokers? They can now enjoy their brands at discount price and can switch over to premium brands like Marlboro which is still affordable.

But you may ask, this should have actually worked against Marlboro, but why not? So here is weighs brand equity where only the premium brands win the race. Generic brands wishing to ride the discount, cheap or tax free wagon loose the race.

There Is another Angle to Marlboro’s Popularity
There are claims fr om health care volunteers and institutions that cigarettes, cheap and premium, have consistently increased the nicotine content in tobacco over the years from 1999 to 2005.

Marlboro has, to the contrary, maintained the nicotine content all through and the company has strongly protested and challenged the report to this effect, and challenged Harvard School of Public Health analysis, which researched the matter to prove its veracity.

While there are hardly any takers of the increased nicotine theory one wonders as to why Marlboro should do so when their brands are already the strong cigarettes available.

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“The people are committed to their brands. We can take the cigarettes, for example. People smoke not tobacco, but their beloved brand. Tobacco can be confused, but the brand – never!”

New-York advertising agency

These are the personalities and the faceless “nobodies” as for people as for products too. The image is created from many characteristics: the name, package, price, style of advertising and the most important characteristic - the quality of the product.

Your advertising should compose the image permanently, year in and year out.

Take for example, the whisky. Why, some people prefer “Jack Daniels” and others – “Old Craw” or “Taylor”. Perhaps, people make out the whisky by its taste? That’s a laugh. The fact of the matter is that all brands have their aspect and which things are liked by some people – are disliked by others. People choose not the whisky exactly, but its image.

Or, take for example, cigarettes “Marlboro”. Next to this brand, it’s the image of strong and independent cowboy, who was shaped in result of advertising company, making these cigarettes the most popular in the whole world.

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