In earlier decades, when someone reached for a smoke, they might shake out a cigarette from a box featuring the cosmonaut dog Laika, Sputnik, or the Soyuz. These largely Russian cigarette packages are a retro look at a time when even a quick hit of nicotine would remind us of our spacefaring dreams.


Laika


(via Galleryhip and eBay)

Sputnik

(via eBay)

Interplanetary


(via eBay)

Apollo Soyuz


(via Auctionata and Retronaut)

Novaya Planeta (New Planet)


(via File-Magazine)

Raketa (Rocket)


(via rucig.ru)

Vostok


(via eBay)

Orbita


(via Cigarettespedia)

Cosmos



(via Vatera and Cigarettespedia)