Jin Ling

Jin Ling is a cigarette brand of the " Baltic Tobacco Factory " (Russian Балтийская Табачная фабрика, BTF). The name is derived from a former name of the Chinese city of Nanjing, which was once called Jinling (Chinese金陵, golden hill ').

Primarily these cigarettes are produced in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg ) and other Eastern European places and illegally exported to Central and Western Europe, mainly to Germany, for example, to Berlin and the Ruhr area, as well as to the UK by smuggling cigarettes. Jin Ling cigarettes are offered in a pale yellow 20s - hard box that is provided with the logo of a yellow mountain goat and is a reminder of the "Camel " Camel. The brand is available only on the black market in the European Union in 2009 was yet on the list of most cigarettes smoked in Germany at number nine. The price of a box is for the end user significantly below the norm for untaxed cigarettes. A rod ( 200) in Germany there are some for under 20 euros, the box price is two euros or less. The manufacturer " Baltic Tobacco Factory " is the purchase price of a rod at about two euros.

It is estimated that annually arrive at least five billion cigarettes of this brand in the European Union.

The tabloid Berliner Kurier reported in 2010, there were forgeries of Jin Ling, which are indistinguishable from the original, and could include, among other things, feathers, mites, wood, pesticides, mold spores, rat droppings and other pollutants, because these cigarettes under very bad production conditions were established.