Product record
John Player Special Blue
Austrian John Player Special filter cigarettes, 20 in a flip-top box, under EAN-8 42068341 from 2005 as American Blend Blue and from February 2012 as John Player Special Blue, recorded until 2015.
Versions & editions
42068341Austrian promotional pack, early 2015[1]
Austria · supported
Evidence reviewed
Context, dates & evidence notes · Other observations
- Evidence observed
- 2015
- Known applicable from
- 2015-01
- Known applicable until
- 2015-04
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Pieces
- 20
Collector's record: John Player Special Blue with "GEWINNE MIT JOHN PLAYER SPECIAL € 10.000,-" printed on the cellophane, price 4.20 €, producer Imperial Tobacco
Other observations & source differences (6)
Different sources or national labels can coexist. Differences alone do not establish a change to the product.
- Austrian American Blend Blue pack, 2005 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Blue, 20 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane, price 3.30 €; producer Reemtsma Germany; trade mark owner John Player & Sons
- Austrian promotional pack, September 2005 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: the American Blend Blue pack with 3.30 € printed on the cellophane, available during September 2005; producer Reemtsma Germany
- Austrian John Player Special Blue, 2012 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: John Player Special Blue, 20 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane, price 3.80 €; producer Imperial Tobacco, Germany; trade mark owner John Player & Sons
- Austrian promotional pack, 2014 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: John Player Special Blue with "€ 10.000,- GEWINNEN!" printed on the cellophane, price 4.20 €, producer Imperial Tobacco
- Austrian promotional pack, early 2015 supported · selected
Collector's record: John Player Special Blue with "GEWINNE MIT JOHN PLAYER SPECIAL € 10.000,-" printed on the cellophane, price 4.20 €, producer Imperial Tobacco
- Austrian promotional pack, late 2015 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: John Player Special Blue with "JETZT MINI COOPER WORKS GEWINNEN!" printed on the cellophane, price 4.40 €, producer Imperial Tobacco
Product facts
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- Brand
- John Player Special
- Family
- John Player Special
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Sold in
- 🇦🇹 Austria[1]
- Pieces
- 20
- Last observed on sale
- 2015-12
- Last sale evidence
- Austrian promotional pack recorded by the zigsam.at collection as available from September until December 2015
- GS1 prefix
- 420 · Germany
- Replaced by
- 4030600122747 (no page yet)
About this product
John Player Special Blue is a filter cigarette sold in Austria in a flip-top box of 20 under the EAN-8 barcode 42068341.[1] A cigarette-pack collection records the barcode first in 2005 on an Austrian John Player Special American Blend Blue pack priced 3.30 €, made by Reemtsma Germany, and says that pack was replaced by John Player Special Blue in February 2012, which it records under the same barcode at 3.80 € with Imperial Tobacco, Germany as producer.[1] Tar 6 and nicotine 0.5 are given for every pack. The line comes from John Player & Sons of Nottingham and is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands, which launched JPS in the United Kingdom in 1970.[2][3]
The collection also records three Austrian promotional packs under this barcode, with prize draws printed on the cellophane, sold between July 2014 and December 2015.[1] It says the pack was replaced by a version with the large health warning in August 2016, recorded under barcode 4030600122747.[1][4]
Where it's sold
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 4.40 Collector's record of an Austrian promotional pack with barcode 42068341, price 4.40 €, available from September until December 2015
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 3.80 Collector's record of the Austrian 2012 John Player Special Blue pack of 20 with barcode 42068341, price 3.80 €
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 3.30 Collector's record of an Austrian 2005 John Player Special American Blend Blue pack of 20 filter cigarettes with barcode 42068341, price 3.30 €
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Other names for this product
Also known as
- John Player Special American Blend Blue 2005–2012-02
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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 (12)
Coverage measures the evidence recorded here. It does not rate the product.
- Identity: 3 / 3 · Name, brand and classification recorded
- Context: 6 / 6 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
- Label photographs: 0 / 6 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
- Specifications: 0 / 2 · Recorded specifications mapped to comparable property keys
- relationships · unknown: No source names the GS1 licensee of EAN-8 42068341, so no gs1_prefix_owner edge. GS1 Germany allocates EAN-8 numbers one at a time, so the number carries no company prefix
- 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 Austrian promotional pack of late 2015; the collection records the 2016 Austrian John Player Special Blue under 4030600122747
- 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.
- 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. American Blend Blue, Austria 2005; John Player Special Blue, Austria 2012 to 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ John Player Special - regular packs since 2016 zigsam.at cigarette pack collection. other. Accessed 2026-09-25. John Player Special Blue, Austria 2016.
Barcode & identifiers
- EAN-8
42068341- GTIN-14
00000042068341- EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0000042068341
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