John Player Special: version 1

Saved 2026-09-13 10:41 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **John Player Special** cigarettes, EAN-8 50432004 (wanted row, old title "john player special original"), with new stubs brand/john-player-special and company/imperial-brands. Identity: the lo. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# John Player Special <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: John Player Special
disambiguation: the cigarette brand
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                  | market | from | until | ended | status  | source      | note                                                                                          |
| -------- | ----------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/imperial-brands |        |      |       |       | sourced | ^wp-players | Wikipedia also says British American Tobacco markets the brand in some markets outside the UK |
<!--/relations-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type   | locale | from | until |
| ---- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| JPS  | search |        |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref        | url                                                | title              | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wp-players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Player_%26_Sons | John Player & Sons | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Cigarette brand created by John Player & Sons of Nottingham, a constituent of Imperial Tobacco since 1901; it is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands, and by British American Tobacco in some markets outside the UK.[^wp-players]
<!--/about-->