Chinese Tobacco Manufacturer Develops Women's Cigarettes

Source from:  Nanjing City 04/18/2005

Nanjing Cigarette Factory in east China's Jiangsu Province - one of the 36 key Chinese tobacco manufacturers designated by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) - has developed a type of orange-flavored women's cigarettes, filling a gap in the development of fruit-flavored women's cigarettes in China. On April 8, high-grade Qicaimengdu (Colorful Dream Capital) brand orange-flavored women's cigarettes went on markets in Jiangsu and other Chinese regions. Except Qicaimengdu, women's cigarettes on sales in China are all imported brands and are mostly blend-type cigarettes. In developing Qicaimengdu, the technical staff of Nanjing Cigarette Factory focused on researching formulas of leaf tobacco for making women's cigarettes, and carefully chose delicately fragrant leaf tobacco from famous Chinese tobacco-producing regions as the raw material for making the organ-flavored cigarettes, which are mild, gentle and delicate in conformity with the demand of women smokers. Qicaimengdu is of natural fruit flavors, mainly the orange flavor, and is reinforced with appropriate mint flavor, making the mouth feel comfortable and cool. Qicaimengdu is manufactured with the world's first-rate HXD cut tobacco expansion technology and unique processing technology, and with grooved filter tips and highly permeable tipping paper imported from France, which contribute to effectively lowering the content of tar and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke and making smoking safer. The packaging of Qicaimengdu is mainly of the warm color of orange featuring delight, leisure, ease and comfortableness, with the image of the tall television transmission tower in Shanghai, known as the Oriental Pearl, as the theme of the Qicaimengdu brand family. Enditem