Back in 1927 before it occurred to anyone that smoking was harmful to a person's health a 30 year old Austrian man decided to invent an alternative and Pez was born. They were originally round and peppermint flavored,their name came from the German word for peppermint,pfefferminz,which he shortened to Pez by taking the first,middle and last letter. The brick shape came in the 1930s at which time an engineer was hired to develop a dispenser that would distribute one tablet at a time the Pez dispenser debuted at the Vienna Trade Fair in 1949. A US patent for the dispenser was obtained in 1952 and since that time over 1,500 different tops have adorned the dispensers and even though they are somewhat similar to both a pack of cigarettes and a lighter they never really caught on as a way to quit smoking.
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