Africaine (cigarette)

Africaine is a Luxembourgish brand of cigarettes, owned and manufactured by Landewyck Tobacco.^[3]

Africaine

An old Luxembourgish pack of Africaine cigarettes, with French and German text warning at the bottom of the pack.
Product type	Cigarette
Produced by	Landewyck Tobacco
Country	Luxembourg
Introduced	Early 1940s
Markets	Luxembourg, Germany, Italy[1][2]
Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1

History

Africaine was launched in the early 1940s during World War II in Maryland because of the lack of raw tobacco at the time to produce African cigarettes.^[4] After the end of the war, the brand became popular within Luxembourg.

The brand is mainly sold in Luxembourg, but it was or still is sold in some parts of Germany and Italy.^[5][6]

See also

• Tobacco smoking