[1] MS was founded in 1969 by the Italian company "Ente Tabacchi Italiani" and owned by the State Monopoly.

MS was manufactured for years at the Manifattura Tabacchi plant in the city of Rovereto, Trentino.

Due to the factories importance it had its own set of train tracks leading from the railway station into the plant.

A plaque in the Piazza Puccini recalls how the Tobacco Factory was on the war front along the Mugone river in August 1944 and was subject to fierce fighting between the partisan fighter of the Italian resistance movement and forces of the Italian Social Republic and Nazi Germany during the Italian Civil War The factory closed down on 16 March 2001, but MS cigarettes continue to be manufactured in Lecce, Apulia.

[6][2][7] Below are all the current brands of MS cigarettes sold, with the levels of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide included.