Jewel (cigarette brand)
The cigarette brand gem was one of several in the Democratic German Republic (DDR) available filter cigarette brands . It was produced by VEB Dresdner Zigarettenfabriken. With a GDR-wide uniform retail price (EVP) of 2.50 GDR marks for a box of 20 cigarettes, the Juwel brand was one of the cheapest filter cigarettes available in the GDR. A special feature of this cigarette, which was sold in cardboard packaging, was that it was not as long as most of the other filter cigarettes offered in the GDR due to the shorter filter.
From 1972, another type of cigarette was available at the same price under the name Juwel 72, parallel to the “Juwel” brand. This was not made in the GDR, but in Bulgaria , was the length of a standard cigarette and was sold in cellophane packaging . The cigarette imported by Bulgartabac did not meet the taste of many smokers in the GDR. The GDR jewel, now popularly known as the “old jewel”, “short jewel” or simply “old”, was from then on sometimes more difficult to obtain.
After 1990, the brand was initially continued to be produced by "Vereinigte Zigarettenfabriken Dresden GmbH", a subsidiary of Philip Morris GmbH . In 1998 the company was renamed "f6 Cigarettenfabrik Dresden GmbH". In addition to the Juwel and Juwel 72 cigarettes, the product range also included the former GDR brands f6 and KARO . Even after 1990 these brands were offered almost exclusively in East Germany . The Juwel cigarettes were withdrawn from the market in 2015/2016. They were made in Dresden until the end.
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