At the beginning of the 20th Century most of the pure Turkish tobacco cigarette industry was concentrated in New York City. Immigrant Turkish, Egyptian, and Greek tobacconists had been making their specialty cigarettes there since the Civil War. The different brands produced were low volume, and most were sold locally or, at most, regionally. Customers tended to be new emigrants or the wealthy Carriage Trade. Word-of-mouth advertising, advertising postcards, the occasional poster, and a few newspaper ads sufficed. These early factory made cigarettes were still considered a novelty among tobacco aficionados: sales were well behind those of chewing tobacco and cigars. However, of those cigarettes that were bought, twenty-five percent were of the Turkish and Egyptian variety. The Khedivial Company made their Samaris and Oxford Cigarettes from pure Turkish tobacco in Factory 348, 2nd District New York. The gospels tell us that a 'good Samaritan' is compassionate. As a brandname for cigarette, Samaris leaves something to be desired. Non-smokers who consider themselves Christens aren't any more compassionate toward smokers than smokers who empty their car's ashtray in public places leaving butts for others to rejoyce over.