Dick Tobin, owner of the R. R. Tobin Tobacco Company, was proud of the fact that he had started his career by introducing Camel Cigarettes into Michigan during the 1913 introductory campaign. Without much of an advertising budget (200 cigarettes a week for sampling and his own use) or any nice looking promotional material to catch a retailer's attention, Tobin still managed to get into some trouble by selling too many of the revolutionary new 'American blend' Camels. According to a letter that he wrote years later to a tobacco trade magazine, Tobin recalled his boss, Reynolds Smith, "bawling the hell out of me for overloading the customers." It seems that Mr. Smith thought that Tobin's two orders of 50,000 cigarettes each that were placed in Flint, Mich., would oversupply the smokers living there. During the late 1940's and into the 1950's Mr. Tobin sold his own brand of tobacco and cigarettes. Cookie Jar Cigarettes were made for him first in Missouri by the Christian Peper Tobacco Company, then by Larus & Bro. in Richmond, Virginia.