Africaine (cigarette)

Luxembourgish cigarette brand

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Africaine

An old Luxembourgish pack of Africaine cigarettes, with a Luxembourgish text warning at the bottom of the pack.

Product type| Cigarette
Produced by| Landewyck Tobacco
Country| Luxembourg
Introduced| Early 1940s
Markets| Luxembourg, Germany, Italy[1][2]
Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1

Africaine is a Luxembourgish brand of cigarettes, currently[when?] owned and manufactured by Landewyck Tobacco.[3] Africaine is French for African.

## History

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Africaine was launched in the early 1940s. During World War II, Maryland was launched because of the lack of raw tobacco that was available at the time to produce Africaine cigarettes.[4] After the end of the war, the brand became popular within Luxembourg.

The brand is mainly sold in Luxembourg, but it was or still is sold in some parts of Germany and Italy.[5][6]

## See also

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* Tobacco smoking

## References

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1. ^ "BrandAfricaine - Cigarettes Pedia". Cigarettespedia.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
2. ^ "Africaine". Zigsam.at. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
3. ^ "Landewyck: cigarettes". Hvl.lu. Archived from the original on 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
4. ^ "Landewyck: History - Sales". Hvl.lu. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
5. ^ "BrandAfricaine". Cigarettes Pedia. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
6. ^ "Africaine". Zigsam.at. Retrieved 2017-12-30.