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{{Short description|Russian cigarette brands}}
{{for|the Chinese Olympic athlete|Jin Ling (athlete)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}

{{infobox brand
| name= Jin Ling
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| image= [[File:Jin ling cigarette pack.jpg|250px]]
| caption= An old Russian pack of Jin Ling cigarettes, with a Russian text warning at the bottom of the pack.
| type= [[Cigarette]]
| producedby= Baltic Tobacco Company
| origin= [[Russia]] (alleged)
| introduced= {{start date and age|1997}}
| discontinued=
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| markets=[[Ukraine]], [[Russia]], [[China]] and everywhere else<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cigarettespedia.com/index.php/BrandJin_Ling|title=BrandJin Ling - Cigarettes Pedia|website=www.cigarettespedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zigsam.at/B_JinLing.htm|title=Jin Ling|website=www.zigsam.at}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cigarety.by/brand.php?n=10&l=9&p=0&w=JIN+LING|title=Brands|website=www.cigarety.by}}</ref>
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| footnotes = Carcinogenicity: [[IARC group 1]]
}}

'''Jin Ling''' is a [[Russia|Russian]] brand of [[cigarette]]s, currently owned and manufactured by the [[Kaliningrad]]-based manufacturer Baltic Tobacco Company ({{lang-ru|link=yes|Балтийская табачная фабрика}}, BTC). Other places where this brand is manufactured include [[Ukraine]], [[Moldova]], [[Cyprus]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r18sDwAAQBAJ&dq=jin+ling+cigarettes&pg=PA229|title=Handbook of Research on Counterfeiting and Illicit Trade|first=Peggy E.|last=Chaudhry|date=28 July 2017|publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9781785366451}}</ref>

==History==
The name is derived from Adam wray, the older name of [[Nanjing]], where the brand was originally developed by the Chinese state-owned Nanjing Tobacco Factory.<ref name="CPI">{{cite web|url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/tobacco/articles/entry/763/ |title=Made To Be Smuggled: Russian Contraband Cigarettes 'Flooding' EU |first1=Roman |last1=Shleynov |first2=Stefan |last2=Candea |first3=Duncan |last3=Campbell |first4=Vlad |last4=Lavrov |date=19 October 2008 |publisher=[[Center for Public Integrity]] |access-date=8 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704132346/http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/tobacco/articles/entry/763/ |archive-date= 4 July 2010 }}</ref> After the brand died out, the Baltic Tobacco Company re-introduced it in 1997.<ref name="CPI" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://themorningnews.org/article/the-marlboro-men-of-chernivtsi|title=The Marlboro Men of Chernivtsi - The Morning News|first=Andrew W.|last=Jones|website=themorningnews.org}}</ref>

The packet design resembles the American brand [[Camel (cigarette)|Camel]] in colour, typeface and layout,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metro.co.uk/news/805076-children-smoke-asbestos-ciggies |title=Children smoke asbestos ciggies |first=Jo |last=Steele |date=7 December 2009 |publisher=[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]] |access-date=8 October 2010}}</ref> but instead of a camel, it features a [[mouflon]]. Jin Ling cigarettes are only sold illegally and the brand is the first to be designed explicitly for smuggling.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=106816342 |title=Tobacco Fuels Addiction, And Terrorism |first=Terry |last=Gross |date=21 July 2009 |publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=8 October 2010}}</ref> It has been reported by customs officials as the "most seized" brand in Europe;<ref name="CPI" /> in 2007, 258 million Jin Ling cigarettes were seized by [[European Border and Coast Guard Agency|authorities in EU countries]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/oct/20/tobaccoindustry-russia-europe-smuggling-cigarettes |title=Waves of smuggled Russian cigarettes flood Europe |first1=Duncan |last1=Campbell |first2=Stefan |last2=Candea |date=20 October 2008 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=8 October 2010 |location=London}}</ref> In 2017, during a bust by the North East Lincolnshire Council Trading Standards officers, a red variant of Jin Ling cigarettes was discovered. Previous Jin Ling cigarettes only had a yellow colour.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/illegal-jin-ling-cigarettes-linked-142365|title=Warning over these illegal Russian cigarettes being sold in Grimsby|date=28 June 2017|via=www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk|newspaper=Grimsbytelegraph}}</ref>

There are 19 factories in Russia where Jin Ling is produced, but there are also factories in Ukraine and Moldova. Some of these factories may be acting as a franchise, but the Jin Ling brand is also licensed to other manufacturers.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052540 |pmid=26418617 |pmc=5036225 |title=A closer look at 'Cheap White' cigarettes |journal=Tobacco Control |volume=25 |issue=5 |pages=527–531 |year=2016 |last1=Ross |first1=Hana |last2=Vellios |first2=Nicole |last3=Clegg Smith |first3=Katherine |last4=Ferguson |first4=Jacqueline |last5=Cohen |first5=Joanna E. }}</ref>

==Controversies==
In May 2010, the German tabloid ''[[Berliner Kurier]]'' reported that fake Jin Ling were being made, which were no longer distinguishable from the genuine, and which could include feathers, [[mite]]s, wood, [[pesticide]]s, [[Mold (fungus)|mold spores]], rat droppings and other pollutants, because they were manufactured under very poor production conditions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berliner-kurier.de/so-erfolgreich--dass-sie-sogar-gefaelscht-wird-rattenkot--federn--plaste---keiner-weiss--was-noch-in-den-schmuggel-kippen-drin-ist-schmuggelzigarette-jin-ling-21717434|title=So erfolgreich, dass sie sogar gefälscht wird Rattenkot, Federn, Plaste - keiner weiß, was noch in den Schmuggel-Kippen drin ist: Schmuggelzigarette Jin Ling|last=SHI|date=2010-05-18|website=berliner-kurier.de}}</ref>

In April 2014 the cigarette was linked to a house fire in [[Spalding, Lincolnshire|Spalding]] in which a 71-year-old woman, June Buffham, had died. Emma Milligan, a [[Trading Standards|Trading Standards Officer]] at [[Lincolnshire County Council]], said: "Jin Ling cigarettes are so dangerous because they don't go out when not actively being smoked, potentially causing a horrendous house fire, like the case here."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-27225400 |title=Family's plea over illegal cigarette death - BBC News |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=30 April 2014 |access-date=10 August 2015}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Tobacco smoking]]
* [[Tobacco smoking]]
* [[Drina (cigarette)]]
* [[Elita (cigarette)]]
* [[Filter 57 (cigarette)]]
* [[Jadran (cigarette)]]
* [[Laika (cigarette)]]
* [[Lovćen (cigarette)]]
* [[Morava (cigarette)]]
* [[Partner (cigarette)]]
* [[Smart (cigarette)]]
* [[Time (cigarette)]]
* [[Sobranie]]
* [[LD (cigarette)]]
* [[Walter Wolf (cigarette)]]

==References==
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[[Category:Russian cigarette brands]]
[[Category:Products introduced in 1997]]
[[Category:Russian brands]]