Cigarette pack

On the left, a new Finnish Lucky Strike cigarette pack by a new EU directive with warning photo; on the right, an obsolete pack as red. Some countries, such as France, the United Kingdom and Australia, go further in their warnings (plain packaging).[1]

A pack or packet of cigarettes (also informally called fag packet in British slang; as in the idiom "back of a fag packet" or "fag-packet calculation") is a rectangular container, mostly of paperboard, which contains cigarettes. The pack is designed with a flavor-protective foil, paper or plastic, and sealed through a transparent airtight plastic film. By pulling the "pull-tabs", the pack is opened. Hard packs can be closed again after opening, whereas soft packs cannot.

Cigarette packs often contain warning messages depending on which country they are sold in.[2] In the European Union, most tobacco warnings are standardised.[1]

A patent has been granted for a cigarette package containing a container for disposal of cigarette butts. [3][4]

  1. ^ a b Press Association (19 May 2017). "Stricter cigarette packaging rules come into force in UK". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  2. ^ Eschner, Kat (11 January 2017). "People Have Tried to Make U.S. Cigarette Warning Labels More Graphic for Decades". Smithsonian. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Cigarette packs with container for cigarette butts". Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  4. ^ Patent for a cigarette packs with container for cigarette butts