The Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company distributed the Egyptian made Vafiadis Cigarettes in the United States. This arrangement lasted until 1916, when Mr. Theodoro Vafiadis granted L&M permission to actually manufacture his Vafiadis Cigarettes here. The American version was made in Factory No. 25, 2nd District of Virginia. A package of ten cigarettes sold for 25 cents, and although expensive, still cost less than the imported Vafiadis. That fabulous looking building pictured on the back of the Vafiadis box isn't the Virginia plant, but where the cigarettes were made in Egypt. Beginning 1870, Theodoro Vafiadis made his smokes in Cairo, with branch factories in Calcutta, Bombay, London, and Rangoon. He advertised them as "Purveyed to the Household of the Khedive, the Imperial Court of Austria-Hungary, His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Imperial Court of Japan, etc. etc., the principal clubs and the regimental messes of India, Burmah and Canada."

The Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company made Vafiadis Cigarettes for less than five years. This brand proved to be a much more popular smoke in India. Before the end of the First World War the burra sahibs, who were wealthy English businessmen living in Eastern India, preferred Theodoro Valiadis' custom made cigarettes. These luxury all-Turkish tobacco cigarettes had been rolled in his Calcutta factory. The burra sahibs were expatriates who lived luxurious lives: their homes were mansions, their club the Bengal Club, their drink a whiskey-and-soda, and their favorite smoke a Vafiadis.