Rooted in Mohawk tobacco tradition, Ohserase Manufacturing makes all-natural, Native-made tobacco products at its Akwesasne facility, including its flagship Signal cigarettes. Established in 2006, the company is part of the Tarbell Management Group, a fourth-generation Native American family-owned business, and operates an 80,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility. Ohserase also develops private-label tobacco products for domestic and international markets.
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Seneca ManufacturingSeneca Manufacturing makes tobacco products in Salamanca on the Seneca Nation. Its site indicates that the company markets these products exclusively to adults aged 21 and over.SALAMANCA, NY
John Middleton, IncJohn Middleton traces its tobacco roots to a Philadelphia tobacco shop founded in 1856 and today manufactures and markets cigars and pipe tobacco. A subsidiary of Altria since 2007, it makes premium tobacco products in Richmond, Virginia, and King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and is known for the Black & Mild brand.KING OF PRUSSIA, PA
Christie's House of Pipes & CigarsFor more than 40 years, Christie's House of Pipes & Cigars has operated in Waynesboro as a tobacco shop and the home of Eric E. Christie's handmade pipes. Christie learned pipe making as a 1980s apprentice to Pennsylvania pipemaker Richard C. Johnson, then returned to his father's tobacco store and began crafting pipes from well-aged Mediterranean briar. The shop also hand-blends its own natural pipe tobaccos, packaged to order for freshness, alongside imported handmade cigars and smoking accessories.WAYNESBORO, PA