No Kiss cigarettes. But the rest of the world is open, why not? Branding makes things fun.” Founded in 1973 by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, Kiss became famous for their elaborate face paint ...

Gene Simmons was born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel, in 1949, but was raised in Queens, New York. He co-founded Kiss in the early '70s and has since become the group's most visible and most ...