Jin Ling

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Cigarette pack; under the English lettering is written in Russian: "The (responsible) ministry warns: Smoking is harmful to your health"

Jin Ling is a cigarette brand of the "Baltic Tobacco Factory" ( Russian Балтийская Табачная фабрика , BTF). The name is derived from an earlier name of the Chinese city of Nanjing , which was once called Jinling ( Chinese金陵 'Golden Hill').

These cigarettes are primarily produced in Kaliningrad (the former Königsberg) and other Eastern European locations and are illegally exported to Central and Western Europe, mainly to Germany, for example to Berlin and the Ruhr area as well as to Great Britain, through cigarette smuggling .

The cigarettes are offered in a pale yellow hard box of 20, which is provided with the logo of a wild sheep and is intended to be reminiscent of the " camel camel ". The brand is only available on the black market in the European Union , but was ninth on the list of the most smoked cigarettes in Germany in 2009. The price of a box for the end customer is considerably lower than that for taxed cigarettes. A stick (200 pieces) is sometimes available in Germany for less than 20 euros (as of 2010), the box price is two euros or less. At the manufacturer "Baltic Tobacco Factory" the purchase price for a stick is around two euros.

It is estimated that at least five billion cigarettes of this brand enter the European Union every year.

The tabloid Berliner Kurier reported in 2010 that there were fakes of Jin Ling that could no longer be distinguished from the original, and that they could contain feathers, mites, wood, pesticides, mold spores, rat excrement and other pollutants because these cigarettes were under very low poor production conditions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian mafia fools the EU and tobacco companies , Wirtschaftswoche dated August 11, 2010.
  2. ↑ Jin Ling. East Asia Institute at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences , accessed on December 6, 2013 .
  3. ↑ The bloody way of smuggling cigarettes. In: Berliner Kurier . May 18, 2010, accessed August 16, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Four years imprisonment for Polish cigarette smugglers: Jin Ling rolled in the DPD Sprinter to Rotthausener Schrebergarten in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung on October 15, 2009
  5. ↑ Customs strike against cigarette mafia in Berliner Morgenpost from January 27, 2009
  6. ↑ CRIME: "Jin Ling" as illegal cargo - customs officers confiscated a good 47 million untaxed cigarettes on Oder and Neisse in 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Märkische Allgemeine on March 11, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.maerkischeallgemeine.de  
  7. ^ Cigarette smuggling: "Jin Ling" conquer the German market in Kölnische Rundschau on May 19, 2010
  8. ↑ Smuggling: On the Paths of the Mountain Goat in Tagesspiegel of August 31, 2008
  9. ↑ Jin Ling contraband cigarette in the top ten sales WDR , Youtube Video, viewed on December 8, 2010
  10. ↑ The uncanny rise of the billy goat Spiegel Online from October 4, 2009.
  11. ↑ Berliner Kurier in December 2010: Jin Ling smuggled cigarette - so successful that it is even counterfeit , viewed on June 3, 2011