Sakura was a
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
ese brand of cigarettes that was owned and manufactured by
Japan Tobacco
Hepburn: ''Nippon Senbai Kōsha''
, type = 1985-: Public (''kabushiki gaisha'') 1949-1985: Statutory corporation
, traded_as =
, industry = FoodTobacco
, foundation = 1898 (as Imperial Japanese Tobacco Company)1 June 1949 (as Japan Tobacco ...
.
History
Sakura was launched on February 1, 2005. Limited sales began in the
Kagoshima
, abbreviated to , is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Located at the southwestern tip of the island of Kyushu, Kagoshima is the largest city in the prefecture by some margin. It has been nicknamed the "Naples of the Eastern wor ...
and
Miyazaki prefectures.
The concept is a real cigarette that inspired cherry and sublimed Japanese elements. Old cherry blossom was involved in the development of president Katsuhiko Honda, then president.
New Sakura made a more contemporary product such as lowering tar value compared to the old Sakura and introducing D-spec, but the pack design and basic elements had not been changed.
Old cherry blossom variant has been discontinued after January 2006.
After that, a "D-spec" (low smoke smell) version of Sakura was sold in the
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...
only on October 2, 2006 (5 other JTI brands were simultaneously sold in this limited area).
New cherry blossoms were discontinued as of January, 2011 due to poor sales.
They were of traditional Japanese cigarette sizes: short (70 mm) or king size (85 mm) or long (100 mm). They came within a soft or hard pack, 10 or 20 cigarettes per pack. The
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
word ''
Sakura
A cherry blossom, also known as Japanese cherry or sakura, is a flower of many trees of Prunus, genus ''Prunus'' or Prunus subg. Cerasus, ''Prunus'' subg. ''Cerasus''. They are common species in East Asia, including China, Korea and especia ...
'' means ''"cherry blossoms"''.
Products
* Sakura Cherry Blossoms (old)
* Sakura Cherry Blossoms (new)
Below are all the variants of Pianissimo cigarettes, with the levels of
tar
Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. "a dark brown or black bit ...
and
nicotine
Nicotine is a natural product, naturally produced alkaloid in the nightshade family of plants (most predominantly in tobacco and ''Duboisia hopwoodii'') and is widely used recreational drug use, recreationally as a stimulant and anxiolytic. As ...
included.
See also
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Smoking in Japan
Smoking in Japan is practiced by around 20,000,000 people, and the nation is one of the world's largest tobacco markets, though tobacco use has been declining in recent years.
As of 2019, the Japanese adult smoking rate was 16.7%. By gender, 2 ...
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Fashion brands
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For ''haute couture'' only, see the list of grands couturiers. For footwear designers, see the list of footwear desi ...
References
Japanese cigarette brands
Japan Tobacco brands
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