Blend (cigarette)

Blend is a Swedish brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by "Svenska Tobaks AB".[1]

Blend

An old Finnish pack of Blend cigarettes, with a Finnish text warning at the bottom of the pack.
Product type	Cigarette
Produced by	Svenska Tobaks AB
Country	Sweden
Introduced	1971
Markets	See Markets

History

Blend was introduced in 1971 by Swenska Tobaks AB as a cigarette brand with lower tar. The first variant, which came to be known as yellow blend after the colour of the package, had 12 milligrams of tar.[2] the following year a menthol flavoured variant was launched called Blend Blue.[3]

The brand continued to be launched with weaker and lower tar. A Blend White variant was introduced with 8 milligrams of tar in 1977, then an Ultra (5 milligrams of tar, launched in 1979) and a Ultima (2 milligrams of tar, launched in 1981) were launched.).[4] There have also been other variants and name changes in conjunction with updates to the product range. It has later been questioned whether lower tar cigarettes really are less harmful.

Brands are today (2017), among other things, numbered: No. 1 (Yellow blend), No 2 (White blend) and no. 3 (Ultra).

Markets

The brand is mainly sold in Sweden, but also was or still is sold in Finland, Spain and Russia.[5][6][7]

See also

• Cigarette
• Tobacco smoking

References

1. "Swedish Match - Svenska Tobaks AB". Swedishmatch.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
2. "Oförändrad lungcancerrisk med sänkt tjärhalt". Tobaksfakta (in Swedish). 2017-06-24. Archived from the original on 2017-12-29. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
3. "BrandBlend". Cigarettes Pedia. 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
4. "Produkter". Tobakshistoria.com. 2017-06-24. Archived from the original on 2017-04-22. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
5. "BrandBlend - Cigarettes Pedia". Cigarettespedia.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
6. "Blend". Zigsam.at. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
7. "Brands". Cigarety.by. Retrieved 4 June 2018.