North State

North State (also known as Nortti) is a Finnish brand of cigarettes which was manufactured by "Suomen Tupakka".[1]

For the American telecommunications company, see North State Communications.
North State
Product typeCigarette
OwnerBritish American Tobacco
CountryFinland
Introduced1931 (1931)
MarketsEurope, North America
Previous ownersSuomen Tupakka, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

Today, the brand is owned and manufactured by multi-national company British American Tobacco.[2]

History

North State was founded in 1931 and is a cigarette which is equipped with a shorter filter compared to many other cigarette brands. The cigarette is mainly sold in Finland, but was also sold in Denmark, the Netherlands, East Germany, West Germany, Switzerland and the United States.[3][1][4][5] Jokingly, the brand is usually called "Chauffeur tobacco".

In Finland, the market had three different variants of North State: Red Filter, Filterless Green, and in 2014 North State White was added to the collection, which uses an all-organic type of tobacco.

North State Green is no longer sold because the tar content exceeded the 10 milligram legal limit imposed in the European Union.[6]

Besides traditional cigarette packs, tin cans containing the cigarettes were also sold.[7]

Products
Pack of North State cigarettes
  • North State Red Filter
  • North State Green Filterless (No longer sold)
  • North State White Organic Tobacco

The amount of tar and nicotine in the Red Filter variant consists of 10 milligram and 0.8 milligram respectively.

See also

References
  1. "North State". zigsam.at. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
  2. YLE MOT Archived 2013-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "BrandNorth State". Cigarettes Pedia. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
  4. "Brands". cigarety.by. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
  5. "Old North State Cigarettes / Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 / Duke Digital Repository". repository.duke.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
  6. Tupakkalaki ja tupakkavero. Kansanterveyslaitos (Web Archive)
  7. "Old Shop Stuff | Old-tobacco-cigarette-tin-North-State-Cigarettes-Kentucky for sale (21323)". oldshopstuff.com. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
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