Lucky Strike Logo — Lucky Strike is a leading brand of cigarettes owned by British American Tobacco . Introduced in 1871 , is represented by a logo well known, the bull’s eye. The brand offers consumers three types of cigarettes: network , silver and classic (no filter). In 1871 , RA Patterson of Richmond , Virginia , first introduced this brand, as a mixture of snuff for smoking . In 1916 , the American Tobacco Companyintroduces the cigarette in a dark green package.
In 1978 Brown & Williamson bought the rights to export. In 1994 , the same company bought the rights to the United States . In 1996 , filtered cigarettes are officially launched in San Francisco , California but until 1999 were not available in the rest of the country.