Juwel (cigarette)

Juwel

Product type	Cigarette
Owner	Altria
Produced by	Philip Morris International
Country	East Germany
Discontinued	2016 (2016)
Markets	East Germany, Germany
Previous owners	"VEB Zigarettenfabriken Dresden"
Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1

Juwel was an East German brand of cigarettes which was owned by Altria and manufactured by Philip Morris International.

History

Juwel cigarettes were produced by VEB Dresden Zigarettenfabriken. With a single retail sale price throughout the GDR (EPP), the cigarette cost 2.50 East German mark for a box of 20 cigarettes, and that made Juwel one of the cheapest filter cigarettes available in the GDR. A special feature of this cigarette, was that it was sold in a cardboard packaging and that it had a shorter filter compared to other filter cigarettes offered in East Germany.

From 1972, another type of cigarette was available for the same price under the name Juwel 72 in parallel with the "Juwel" brand. This brand was not made in the GDR, but in the People's Republic of Bulgaria, had the length of a standard cigarette and was sold in a cellophane packaging. The cigarette was imported by Bulgartabac and did not correspond to the taste of many smokers in the GDR. The GDR Juwel, popularly now called "Old Jewel", "Short Jewel" or just called "Old", was from then on partially difficult to obtain.

After 1990, the brand was initially produced by Vereinigte Zigarettenfabriken Dresden GmbH, a subsidiary of Philip Morris International. In 1998 the company was renamed f6 Cigarettenfabrik Dresden GmbH. In addition to the Juwel and Juwel 72 cigarettes, the product range also included the former DDR brands f6 and KARO. Even after 1990, these brands were sold almost exclusively in East Germany.

In the years 2015 and 2016, the Juwel cigarettes were taken off the market.

See also

• Cigarette
• Tobacco smoking