Marlboro Cigarettes is the most word-wide known cigarette brand made by Altria Group, Inc. previously named Philip Morris Companies Inc. Philip Morris Companies Inc changed it's name to Altria Group Inc on January 27, 2003. Originally Marlboro Cigarettes was exposed in 1847 at the London market but soon repositioned in the USA. The greatest cigarettes products brand is named after Great Marlborough Street where it's original London tobacco factory was situated. When the Cigarettes Brand first emerged on the cigarettes market in 1920, they were marketed to women. The ads featured women and held the slogan "Mild as May." One of the traits of Marlboro cigs at that period was a red tip, which concealed women's lipstick marks. This approach was successful until World War II (1939-45), when slow sales caused Marlboro packs to be withdrawn from the cigarettes market. The cigarettes were revived in the 1950s, as the first medical research linking cigarette smoking with cancer began to reach the public. It was thought that Marlboro cigarettes, with their filter, might offer smokers the illusion of a reduced health risk. However, the filter was regarded as effeminate by many men, who made up the bulk of the cigarettes market.