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John Player Special American Blend Full Flavour Red

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John Player Special American Blend Red filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with EAN-8 40304755, recorded by a pack collection in Germany (18 pieces, 2003), Austria (20 pieces, 2003 and 2004) and Greece (20 pieces, 2010); made by Reemtsma.

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Barcode 40304755

Austrian pack, 2004[1]

Austria · supported

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Context, dates & evidence notes · Other observations

Evidence observed
2004
Known applicable from
2004-03
Known applicable until
2005
Pack
flip-top box with cellophane
Pieces
20

Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Red, 20 filter cigarettes, 3.20 €; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced in 2005 by a version with the Austrian health warning, which carries barcode 42048756

Other observations & source differences (4)

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  • German pack, 2003 supported · Compare evidence

    Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Full Flavour Red, 18 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane, € 2.75 printed on the cellophane; producer Reemtsma; trade mark owner John Player & Sons

  • Austrian pack, 2003 supported · Compare evidence

    Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Red Full Flavour, 20 filter cigarettes, 3.20 €; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced by John Player Special American Blend Red in March 2004

  • Austrian pack, 2004 supported · selected

    Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Red, 20 filter cigarettes, 3.20 €; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced in 2005 by a version with the Austrian health warning, which carries barcode 42048756

  • Greek pack, 2010 supported · Compare evidence

    Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Red, 20 filter cigarettes, 2.50 €; producer Reemtsma, Germany; trade mark owner John Player & Sons

Specifications

Tar
10[1]
Conditions & original evidence

Recorded: 10

known · printed

Unit not stated by the source

Nicotine
0.8[1]
Conditions & original evidence

Recorded: 0.8

known · printed

Unit not stated by the source

Product facts

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Barcode
40304755 check digit OK
Pack
flip-top box with cellophane
Pieces
20
Last observed on sale
2010
Last sale evidence
Greek pack recorded by the zigsam.at collection in 2010
GS1 prefix
403 · Germany

About this product

John Player Special American Blend Full Flavour Red is a filter cigarette in a flip-top box sold under the EAN-8 barcode 40304755.[1] A cigarette-pack collection records the barcode on a German pack of 18 from 2003 with € 2.75 printed on the cellophane, on Austrian packs of 20 from 2003 and 2004 at 3.20 €, and on a Greek pack of 20 from 2010 at 2.50 €, naming Reemtsma as the producer and John Player & Sons as the trade mark owner.[1] The John Player Special line is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands, which launched it in the United Kingdom in 1970 and added a king size American blend in 1989.[2][3]

In Austria the pack took the name American Blend Red Full Flavour in September 2003, when it replaced JPS American Blend, and was renamed American Blend Red in March 2004 with tar lowered from 12 to 10; in 2005 a version with the Austrian health warning replaced it under barcode 42048756.[1]

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Other names for this product

Also known as

  • John Player Special American Blend Red Full Flavour 2003–2004-03
  • John Player Special American Blend Red 2004-03–

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Sources & research

Evidence reviewed

zigsam.at cigarette pack collection

John Player Special - regular packs until 2015

other · Accessed 2026-09-25

Source & attribution [1] ↗

Wikipedia

John Player & Sons

publication · Accessed 2026-09-25

Source & attribution [2] ↗

Imperial Brands

Imperial Brands: our brands, JPS entry and brand timeline (13 September 2026 capture)

manufacturer · Accessed 2026-09-25

Source & attribution [3] ↗

Coverage & research gaps (11)

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  • Identity: 3 / 3 · Name, brand and classification recorded
  • Context: 4 / 4 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
  • Label photographs: 0 / 4 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
  • Specifications: 0 / 8 · Recorded specifications mapped to comparable property keys
  • relationships · unknown: No source names the GS1 licensee of EAN-8 40304755, so no gs1_prefix_owner edge. GS1 Germany allocates EAN-8 numbers one at a time, so there is no company prefix to read from the number
  • specifications · unknown: The collection gives tar and nicotine as bare numbers without units, so the rows keep no unit
  • identity · unknown: One barcode on packs of 18 (Germany) and 20 (Austria, Greece), so the page carries no single net content; the piece count is on each observation
  • markets · stale: The latest record of this barcode is the Greek 2010 pack; no current retail listing of 40304755 was found
  • images · unknown: No freely licensed photograph of this pack was found: the zigsam.at pack photographs carry no licence
  • evidence · stale: Evidence was observed over a year ago; check for newer labels. Historical evidence remains valid.
  • evidence · stale: Evidence was observed over a year ago; check for newer labels. Historical evidence remains valid.
  • evidence · stale: Evidence was observed over a year ago; check for newer labels. Historical evidence remains valid.
  • evidence · stale: Evidence was observed over a year ago; check for newer labels. Historical evidence remains valid.
  • images · not_researched: No product photographs recorded.
  • schema · schema_gap: Some specifications retain source labels without comparable property keys.

All references & source details

References

  1. ↑ John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 zigsam.at cigarette pack collection. other. Accessed 2026-09-25. American Blend Full Flavour Red Germany 2003; American Blend Red (Full Flavour) Austria 2003, 2004; Greece 2010.
  2. ↑ John Player & Sons Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-25. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  3. ↑ Imperial Brands: our brands, JPS entry and brand timeline (13 September 2026 capture) Imperial Brands. manufacturer. Published 2026-09-13. Accessed 2026-09-25. JPS entry and brand timeline. Upstream: https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands.

Barcode & identifiers

EAN-8
40304755
GTIN-14
00000040304755
EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0000040304755

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