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| Product type | Cigarette |
|---|---|
| Produced by | British American Tobacco |
| Country | Latvia |
| Introduced | 1967[1] |
| Discontinued | 2009 |
| Markets | Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia |
| Previous owners | "Rīgas Tabakas Fabrika" |
| Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1 | |
Elita is a Latvian brand of cigarettes that was produced between 1967 and 2009 by the Latvian company "Rīgas Tabakas Fabrika" and later by British American Tobacco[citation needed]. According to the data submitted by the Latvian State Revenue Service, Elita was the most sold brand of filtered cigarettes in Latvia for about twenty years.[2]
- ^ "House of Prince Rīga sāk ražot jaunas cigaretes". Diena.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ^ "Most popular cigarettes in Latvia in 2005". Apollo.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved August 6, 2011.