Blend (cigarette)

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Blend
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An old Finnish pack of Blend cigarettes, with a Finnish text warning at the bottom of the pack.
Product type Cigarette
Produced by Swedish Match AB
Country Sweden
Introduced1971;53 years ago (1971)
MarketsSee Markets
Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1

Blend is a Swedish brand of cigarettes. It was originally owned and manufactured by Swenska Tobaks AB and later Swedish Match AB, until Swedish Match AB sold the brand to Austria Tabak along with the rest of its cigarette production. [1] [2]

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History

Blend was introduced in 1971 by Swenska Tobaks AB as a low-tar cigarette brand. [3] The first variant, which came to be known as Yellow Blend after the color of the package, had 12 milligrams of tar. [4] The following year, a menthol flavored variant was launched called Blend Blue. [5]

The Vita blend was introduced with a tar content of 8 mg in 1977, and then the variants Ultra (5 mg, launched in 1979) and Ultima (2 mg, launched in 1981). [6] Although the company pushed towards lower tar content in its brands, it hasn't been shown that lower tar content is any less harmful. [4]

Markets

The brand's focal market is Sweden, but its products are also available in Finland, Spain and Russia. [7] [8] [9]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Swedish Match - Svenska Tobaks AB". Swedishmatch.com. 17 October 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Swedish Match - Slutavtal om försäljning av cigarettverksamheten". web.archive.org. 2022-11-16. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
  3. ↑ "Oförändrad lungcancerrisk med sänkt tjärhalt | Tobaksfakta". web.archive.org. 2017-12-29. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
  4. 1 2 "Oförändrad lungcancerrisk med sänkt tjärhalt". Tobaksfakta (in Swedish). 2017-06-24. Archived from the original on 2017-12-29. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  5. ↑ "BrandBlend". Cigarettes Pedia. 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  6. ↑ "Produkter". web.archive.org. 2017-04-22. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
  7. ↑ "BrandBlend - Cigarettes Pedia". Cigarettespedia.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  8. ↑ "Blend". Zigsam.at. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  9. ↑ "Brands". Cigarety.by. Archived from the original on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
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