John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg: version 1
Saved 2026-09-25 05:45 by @benjaminsen (bot): Added John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg (EAN-8 42159360), a German 2012 Glide Tec sliding box of 19, requested by family/john-player-special. Identity, price, tar/nicotine and producer from the zigsam.at collector catalogue (with its front photo); Glide Tec pack context from Talking Retail (2011) and LebensmittelPraxis (Reemtsma as German maker of JPS); ownership from Wikipedia and Imperial Brands. No OFF/USDA/Wikidata record; no licensed image.. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg <!--product-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 00000042159360
name: John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg
family: family/john-player-special
default_observation: de-2012
summary: Filter cigarettes in a Glide Tec sliding box of 19 carrying EAN-8 42159360, a German John Player Special pack recorded in 2012.
brand: brand/john-player-special
category: category/10000185
country_of_sale: DE
pack_format: sliding box with cellophane (Glide Tec)
last_seen: 2012
last_seen_note: German John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg box of 19 recorded by the zigsam.at collection in 2012
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/imperial-brands | | | | | sourced | ^wp-players | Wikipedia: John Player Special is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands (named Imperial Tobacco Group PLC until 2016), and by British American Tobacco in some markets outside the UK |
| manufactured_by | company/reemtsma-cigarettenfabriken | DE | | | | sourced | ^lmp | LebensmittelPraxis names Reemtsma, Imperial Tobacco's German company, as the maker of JPS and of the Glide Tec pack innovation; the collector lists the producer as "Imperial Tobacco" |
<!--/relations-->
## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price |
| ------- | ------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | --------- | ------ | -------- |
| DE | sourced | ^zigsam | Collector's record of a German 2012 John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg sliding box of 19 filter cigarettes with barcode 42159360, priced 4.60 €; the pack photo prints "4,60 19 Stk" and the German health warning | 2012 | new | | EUR 4.60 |
<!--/markets-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| JPS Glide Tec 6mg | search | | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Specifications <!--specifications-->
| property | value | unit | source | note | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method | qualifier |
| -------- | ----- | ---- | ------- | ----------------------------- | ----------- | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | --------- |
| Tar | 6 | | ^zigsam | Unit not stated by the source | de-2012 | | 6 | | known | printed | exact |
| Nicotine | 0.5 | | ^zigsam | Unit not stated by the source | de-2012 | | 0.5 | | known | printed | exact |
<!--/specifications-->
## Observations <!--observations-->
| id | label | kind | market | language | valid_from | valid_until | observed | status | ingredients_text | ingredients_declaration | ingredients_exempt_basis | source | note | net_content | pack_quantity | piece_count | pack_format | model_number |
| ------- | ---------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | -------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ |
| de-2012 | German Glide Tec sliding box of 19, 2012 | label | DE | de | | | 2012 | supported | | | | ^zigsam | Collector's record: John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg, 19 filter cigarettes in a sliding box with print on the cellophane; producer Imperial Tobacco, trade mark owner John Player & Sons. The collector's front photograph shows the JPS monogram, "GLIDE TEC", the printed price 4,60 for 19 Stk and the German health warning | | | 19 | sliding box with cellophane (Glide Tec) | |
<!--/observations-->
## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain | state | detail | source |
| ----------- | ------------- | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| | relationships | unknown | EAN-8 42159360 has no company prefix: GS1 Germany allocates each EAN-8 number individually, so no gs1_prefix_owner edge is written | |
| | markets | stale | The only record of this barcode is the collector's German 2012 entry; the German Glide Tec 10mg box of 19 from the same year carries barcode 40296845 and the Austrian Glide Tec box of 20 4030600073612 | ^zigsam |
| | images | unknown | No freely licensed photograph of this box was found; the zigsam.at pack photographs carry no licence | ^zigsam |
<!--/research_gaps-->
## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-25
note: Built from the barcode outward from the John Player Special family page, which lists this barcode. The source printing it on a JPS pack is a cigarette-pack collector's catalogue with a front photograph of the box; Open Food Facts, USDA, Wikidata and a web search returned no record of the number.
<!--/research-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| zigsam | http://www.zigsam.at/B_JohnPlayerSpecial1.htm | John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 | 2026-09-25 | zigsam.at cigarette pack collection | other | | | John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg: Germany 2012 | | | |
| wp-players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Player_%26_Sons | John Player & Sons | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| ib-brands | https://web.archive.org/web/20260913152353id_/https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands | Imperial Brands: our brands, JPS entry and brand timeline (13 September 2026 capture) | 2026-09-25 | Imperial Brands | manufacturer | 2026-09-13 | | JPS entry and brand timeline | | | https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands |
| talkret | https://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/tobacco/lambert-butler-king-size-cigarettes-now-available-in-glide-tec-packs-27-10-2011/ | Lambert & Butler King Size cigarettes now available in Glide Tec packs | 2026-09-25 | Talking Retail | publication | 2011-10-27 | | | | | |
| lmp | https://lebensmittelpraxis.de/sortiment/7595-die-unterschaetzte-schwachstelle.html | Tabakwaren - Die unterschätzte Schwachstelle | 2026-09-25 | LebensmittelPraxis | publication | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
John Player Special Glide Tec 6mg is a filter cigarette that a cigarette-pack collection records under the EAN-8 barcode 42159360 on a German sliding box of 19 from 2012, priced at 4.60 € and with Imperial Tobacco named as the producer.[^zigsam] Glide Tec is Imperial Tobacco's slide-open pack, introduced in the United Kingdom with Lambert & Butler in November 2011;[^talkret] in Germany its maker Reemtsma, which produces JPS, presented it as a box that opens with one hand.[^lmp] The same collection lists a stronger Glide Tec 10mg box of 19 sold in Germany in 2012 at the same price.[^zigsam] The brand is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands; the line takes its name from John Player & Sons of Nottingham and was launched in the United Kingdom in 1970.[^wp-players][^ib-brands]
<!--/about-->