Cabinet cigarettes were introduced in the GDR in 1972 and produced by the state-owned company VEB Tabak Nordhausen as well as by the United Zigarettenfabriken Dresden . Before the change, the monthly production was around 800 million cigarettes and the market share in 1989 was 33 percent. After reunification , Reemtsma initially took over production, and the market share fell to ten percent. Production took place in Nordhausen until the end of the 1990s , then the location was closed and production continued at the main plant in Langenhagen . New variants were then introduced and the taste changed.