Product record
John Player Special American Blend Red
German John Player Special American Blend Red filter cigarettes with EAN-8 40305493, recorded in a 28-cigarette Maxi Box in 2010 and a 22-cigarette Big Box in 2011.
Versions & editions
40305493CodeCheck community record (Roth-Händle)[4]
Germany · unconfirmed
Evidence reviewed
Context, dates & evidence notes · Other observations
- Evidence observed
- 2015
- Pieces
- 19
Anonymous community record entered 7 October 2009 and last edited 7 October 2015; its URL slug reads "JPS Zigaretten" but the record names the brand as Roth Händle, 19 pieces, tar 10 mg, nicotine 1.0 mg, carbon monoxide 6 mg, maker Reemtsma, origin Germany
Other observations & source differences (3)
Different sources or national labels can coexist. Differences alone do not establish a change to the product.
- German Big Box of 22, 2011 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Red, 22 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane printed "22 JPS CIGARETTES BIG BOX 5.00"; producer Reemtsma Germany; trade mark owner John Player & Sons
- German Maxi Box of 28, 2010 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Red, 28 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane printed "28 JPS CIGARETTES MAXI BOX 6.00"; producer Reemtsma Germany; trade mark owner John Player & Sons
- CodeCheck community record (Roth-Händle) unconfirmed · selected
Anonymous community record entered 7 October 2009 and last edited 7 October 2015; its URL slug reads "JPS Zigaretten" but the record names the brand as Roth Händle, 19 pieces, tar 10 mg, nicotine 1.0 mg, carbon monoxide 6 mg, maker Reemtsma, origin Germany
Product facts
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- Brand
- John Player Special
- Family
- John Player Special
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Sold in
- 🇩🇪 Germany[1]
- Pieces
- 19
- Last observed on sale
- 2011
- Last sale evidence
- German 22-cigarette Big Box recorded by the zigsam.at collection in 2011
- GS1 prefix
- 403 · Germany
About this product
John Player Special American Blend Red is a filter cigarette sold in Germany in flip-top boxes under the EAN-8 barcode 40305493.[1] A cigarette-pack collection records the barcode on a 28-cigarette Maxi Box in 2010 and a 22-cigarette Big Box in 2011, both with tar 10 and nicotine 0.8 and prices printed on the cellophane, and names Reemtsma Germany as the producer and John Player & Sons as the trade mark owner.[1] The John Player Special line comes from John Player & Sons of Nottingham, part of Imperial Tobacco since 1901, and is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands, which launched the JPS line in the United Kingdom in 1970.[2][3]
A CodeCheck community record, last edited in 2015, gives the same number to a 19-piece Roth-Händle pack made by Reemtsma.[4] The collection records a German American Blend Red pack of 24 (2004) and packs of 20 for Austria, Greece and Portugal under other barcodes; the Austrian name was replaced by John Player Special Red in January 2012.[1]
Where it's sold
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Germany Collector's record of a German 2011 pack of 22 filter cigarettes with barcode 40305493; the cellophane reads "22 JPS CIGARETTES BIG BOX 5.00"; the collection's price field gives 6 €
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Germany EUR 6.00 Collector's record of a German 2010 pack of 28 filter cigarettes with barcode 40305493; the cellophane reads "28 JPS CIGARETTES MAXI BOX 6.00" and the collection gives the price as 6 €
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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] ↗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)
Coverage measures the evidence recorded here. It does not rate the product.
- Identity: 3 / 3 · Name, brand and classification recorded
- Context: 3 / 3 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
- Label photographs: 0 / 3 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
- Specifications: 0 / 4 · Recorded specifications mapped to comparable property keys
- identity · disputed: CodeCheck's community record for 40305493 names a 19-piece Roth-Händle pack by Reemtsma (tar 10, nicotine 1.0), while the collector's catalogue photographs two JPS American Blend Red packs with this barcode; the collector's Roth-Händle page does not list 40305493
- relationships · unknown: No source names the GS1 licensee of EAN-8 40305493, 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
- markets · disputed: The 2011 pack's cellophane is printed 5.00 while the collection's price field gives 6 €
- specifications · unknown: The collection gives tar and nicotine as bare numbers without units, so the rows keep no unit
- markets · stale: The latest record of this barcode is the German 2011 pack; the collection records a German American Blend Red pack of 24 and Austrian, Greek and Portuguese packs of 20 under other barcodes, and no current listing of 40305493 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.
- images · not_researched: No product photographs recorded.
- schema · schema_gap: Some specifications retain source labels without comparable property keys.
All references & source details
References
- ↑ John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 zigsam.at cigarette pack collection. other. Accessed 2026-09-25. John Player Special American Blend Red, Germany 2010 and Germany 2011.
- ↑ John Player & Sons Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-25. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Roth-Händle Inhaltsstoffe & Erfahrungen CodeCheck. other. Accessed 2026-09-25. Record: 386723.
Barcode & identifiers
- EAN-8
40305493- GTIN-14
00000040305493- EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0000040305493
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