Karo (cigarette brand)
The cigarette brand Karo (official spelling: KARO) is filterless cigarettes . As a former product from the GDR , it is now being sold by the manufacturer Philip Morris . In the GDR, cigarettes were only made from tobacco without the addition of perfumes, fragrances and flavor enhancers.
History
A pack of unfiltered diamonds was sold in the GDR at the EVP of 1.60 M per box (20 cigarettes), which made it one of the cheapest cigarettes on the Eastern market. Wolfgang Lippert sang about it in 1982 in his hit “Erna geht”, where Hugo Egon Balder's West cover version simply changed the words “a diamond” to “cigarette”.
In the GDR it was popularly nicknamed "lung torpedo" due to its very own and extremely strong taste. KARO smokers were also the object of more or less successful jokes back then.
After the reunification, the Karo cigarette was advertised with the advertising slogan that it was an “attack on unified taste”.
ingredients
- Nicotine: 0.9 mg
- Condensate / tar: 10 mg
- Carbon monoxide: 9 mg
Individual evidence
- ^ Conrad Lay: The triumphant advance of products from the East