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====Japan Tobacco International====

JT was established on 1st April 1985. 
JT will continue to provide brands unique to JT in the tobacco,
pharmaceuticals and foods businesses, and strive to be a company that provides unique and invaluable brands.

JT has been extensively engaged in tobacco, acquiring the highest level of expertise in manufacturing, distribution and research. JT offers a wide range of best-selling cigarette brands for different smokers, with the constant addition of new and timely products. JT dominates the Japan market, the world's fourth largest market, with more than the two-thirds of the market share.

JT has accumulated an enormous amount of expertise in tobacco through its years of involvement in tobacco manufacturing. The result is seen in JT's unrivalled excellence of tobacco manufacturing systems. One example is the state-of-the-art rolling and packaging machines which possess production capacity of 14,000 cigarettes a minute and accuracy up to one-millionth of a millimeter, now in use at JT plants. In addition to these high performance machines, JT has consistently introduced other innovative machines and combined them for the best results to keep its manufacturing speed and quality at the world's highest levels. In addition, JT is taking on the development of new products while continuing to enhance customer satisfaction through extensive research on smoker preference in taste and flavor.

'''Increasing competitiveness through a tremendous domestic sales force '''

JT holds approximately two-thirds of the domestic cigarette market share, which is built on its best-selling brands: Mild Seven, Cabin, Caster, Seven Stars, Peace, Camel, and Salem. Above all, the top-selling Mild Seven brand is Japan's leading cigarette and Camel and Salem are well known international brands. JT has surpassed its competitors in marketing excellence as well. Thanks to its fine-tuning and high-quality win-win tactics, JT's market managers keep a close eye on the status of each shop and provide shopkeepers with ideas to develop attractive selling floors. In addition, all requests and opinions from consumers and retailers around the nation are centrally collected and are used to improve products and services for even greater customer satisfaction.

''' To promote harmony between smokers and non-smokers'''

JT launched its new ''SMOKERS' STYLE'' initiative, in which it calls for better manners on the part of smokers, while enjoying smoking. As part of this initiative, which aims to promote a society in which both smokers and non-smokers can more easily coexist, JT regularly and aggressively implements various measures including: smoking manner advertisements on TV, newspapers and public transportation; conducting voluntary clean-up campaigns with citizens called ''You will love your town more by cleaning it up''; JT-sponsored installation of smoking stands and consultation for effective approaches to establish designated smoking areas in public spaces such as train stations, airports and other large establishments; and distribution of portable ashtrays. We also engage jointly with other companies in research and development of ventilation and cigarette odor removal systems and the creation of smoking rooms using advanced smoke-separation technologies. JT will continue to seek and offer realizations like SMOKERS' STYLE that would enable smokers and nonsmokers to more comfortably coexist.

'''Operating aggressively worldwide as a global cigarette manufacturer'''

JT's international tobacco business exceeds its domestic tobacco business, in terms of sales volume, and it has been growing steadily as a global cigarette company. With its Global Flagship Brands - Camel, Winston, Mild Seven and Salem - JT's international tobacco business operates aggressively around the world as a key source of income growth for the entire JT Group.

'''Mild Seven'''

King Size Box 
Lights King Size Box 
Lights King Size Soft 
Super Lights King Size Box 

'''Wave'''

King Size Full Flavor Soft 
King Size Full Flavor Box 
Full Flavor 100’s Soft 
Full Flavor 100’s Box 
King Size Full Flavor Menthol Soft 
King Size Full Flavor Menthol Box 
Full Flavor Menthol 100’s Soft 
Full Flavor Menthol 100’s Box 
King Size Lights Menthol Box 
Lights Menthol 100’s Soft 
Lights Menthol 100’s Box 
King Size Lights Soft 
King Size Lights Box 
Lights 100’s Soft 
Lights 100’s Box 
King Size Ultra Lights Box 
Ultra Lights 100’s Soft 
Ultra Lights 100’s Box 

'''Export A'''

Regular 25 
Ultra Lights Regular 25 
Lights Regular 25 
Extra Lights Regular 25 
Medium Regular 25 

'''Brands:''' Cabin, Caster, Mild Seven, Seven Stars, and Wave. 
'''Official site:'''http://www.jti.co.jp/JTI_E/ 
'''Consumer Help:''' Call 201-871-1210 or send letter to 
Japan Tobacco International, 910 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632.

 
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Cigarette

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A 'cigarette' is a tobacco product that is manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves, which is rolled or
stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder (generally less than 120 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter). The cigarette is ignited
at one end and allowed to smoulder for the purpose of inhalation of its smoke from the other (usually cigarette filtered)
end, which is inserted in the mouth. They are sometimes smoked with a Cigarette holder. The term cigarette, as commonly used,
typically refers to a tobacco cigarette, but can apply to similar devices containing other herbs, such as cannabis. All
tobacco products have been medically proven to considerably shorten lifespans. Most Western and several Eastern countries
have large health warnings printed on the front and back of packets to warn of the effects of smoking.

A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its smaller size (hence the name), use of processed leaf, and paper wrapping;
cigars are typically composed entirely of whole leaf tobacco. Cigarettes were largely unknown in the English-speaking world
before the Crimean War, when British soldiers began emulating their Ottoman Empire comrades, who resorted to rolling their
tobacco with newsprint.

===Manufacture and ingredients===
In practice, commercial cigarettes and cigarette tobaccos rarely contain pure tobacco. Manufacturers often use a tremendous
variety of additives for a number of purposes, including maintaining blend consistency, improving perceived blend quality, as
preservatives and even completely changing the organoleptic qualities of the tobacco smoke. While this is true for many
brands of cigarettes, in Canada, the major cigarette brands all contain 100% natural virginia leaf - No Additives. Some
cigarettes (known as kretek, clove cigarettes, or simply cloves) have cloves blended with the tobacco. This is done to
enhance the smoker's pleasure by numbing the mouth and lungs and providing a mild euphoric effect. Lower-quality clove
cigarettes simply have a clove essence added to the tobacco.

In addition to additives, cigarette tobaccos, especially lower-quality blends, are often highly physically processed. During
the original processing of leaf for cigarettes, the leaves are deveined, and the lamina is shredded or cut. Since the leaf
is relatively dry at this point, these processes result in a significant amount of tobacco dust. Manufacturing operations
have developed procedures for collecting this dust and remaking it into usable material (known as reconstituted sheet
tobacco).

The removed leaf midveins, which are unsuitable for use in cigarettes in their natural state, were historically discarded or
spread on fields, because of their high nitrogen content. Procedures have been developed, however, to "expand" the stems,
and process them for inclusion in the cigarette blends. All these procedures allow cigarette manufacturers to produce as
many cigarettes as possible using the least amount of raw materials as possible.

The most common usage of the cigarette is tobacco smoke delivery. The second most common usage of the cigarette is for
marijuana smoke delivery. The hand-rolled cigarette is the most common form of marijuana cigarette. Marijuana users will
usually twist the ends of the cigarette to prevent fine cut marijuana buds from falling out. Tobacco users who roll their own
cigarettes, however, will usually not twist the cigarette at the ends; hand rolling tobacco is made in strands so it doesn't
have a tendency to fall out.

Some cigarette smokers roll their own cigarettes by wrapping loose cured tobacco in paper; most, however, purchase
machine-made commercially available brands, generally sold in small cardboard packages of 10 or 20 cigarettes in the United
States and United Kingdom or 25 in Canada. Commercial cigarettes usually contain a cellulose acetate or cotton filter through
which the smoker inhales the cigarette's smoke; the filter serves to cool and supposedly clean the smoke.

Recently, cigarette rolling machines have become increasingly popular. One can purchase tobacco in pouches or cans, usually
at a fraction of the price of what one would pay for the same amount pre-rolled. One can get a rolling machine that makes
filterless, or straight cigarettes, or one can purchase a machine that packs the tobacco into a pre-rolled form with a
filter. These filtered papers usually come in boxes of 200, while unfiltered papers will come in packs ranging from 12 to 64,
and some contain even more.

===Sale===
Before the Second World War many manufacturers gave away collectible cards, one in each packet of cigarettes. This practice
was discontinued to save paper during the war, and was never generally reintroduced. During the second world war they gave
out free cigarettes to the soldiers and citizens. On April 1, 1970 President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health
Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette advertisements on television in the United States starting on January 2,
1971. However, some tobacco companies attempted to circumvent the ban by marketing new brands of cigarettes as "little
cigars"; examples included Tijuana Smalls, which came out almost immediately after the ban took effect, and Backwoods Smokes,
which hit the market in the winter of 1973-1974 and whose ads used the slogan, "How can anything that looks so wild taste so
mild".

The sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to minors under 18 is now prohibited by law in all fifty states of the
United States. In Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey, Suffolk County, New York, and Utah the statutory age is 19, and legislation
was pending as of 2004 in some other states, including California, to raise the age to 19, or even 21 in some cases. In
Massachusetts, parents and guardians are allowed to give cigarettes to minors, but sales to minors are prohibited.
Similar laws exist in many other countries as well. In Canada, most of the provinces require smokers to be 19 years of age to
purchase cigarettes (except for Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta, where the age is 18). However, the minimum age
only concerns the purchase of tobacco, not use. Alberta, however, does have a law which prohibits the possession or use of
tobacco products by all persons under 18, punishable by a $100 fine. Australia has a nation-wide ban on the selling of all
tobacco products to people under 18.

In the UK, cigarettes can legally be sold only to people aged 16 and over. However it is not illegal for people under this
age to buy (or attempt to buy) cigarettes, so only the retailer is breaking the law by selling to under 16s.
Most countries in the world have a legal smoking age of 18. One notorious exception is Switzerland, where the age is 16
whereas a country such as Turkey, which has one of the highest percentage of smokers in its population, has a legal age of
18. In other countries, such as Egypt, however, there is no legal smoking age at all.

However, while bans stand in most countries for sales to minors, it is still common for merchants to disregard such laws as
they are tough to enforce. Often the profits from selling cigarettes to minors illegally are much greater than the fines paid
out in very infrequent times when they are caught. Some police departments in the United States occasionally send a clearly
underage child into a store where cigarettes are sold, and have the child attempt to purchase cigarettes. If the vendor sells
them to the minor, the store is issued a fine. This is by far the most common way in which cigarette vendors are caught when
they sell cigarettes to minors.

===Online cigarette stores===
Online stores have recently appeared that offer foreign cigarettes to internet buyers. As many jurisdictions place high taxes
on tobacco sales, these could be seen as an effort to avoid paying duty or taxes.

Some online cigarette stores exist to sell tax-free cigarettes inside one's own country of residence as well. The legality of
these stores is being questioned currently in the United States. Federal lawmakers contend that these stores are clear tax
evasions. Recently in Michigan, several online stores have been subpoenaed by the state for the names and addresses of
customers. The state has reportedly been sending out fines for each package purchased, contending tax evasion over Michigan's
$2-a-pack law.

This same action has also taken place in Wisconsin after the Wisconsin Department of Revenue received a list of several
thousand buyers in that state from an online cigarette merchant. However, the effort to collect on the taxes from the listed
residents was stopped by order of Governor Jim Doyle a few days later.

Visa allow online cigarette stores to accept payment by credit-card.

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