King cigarettes are produced by the Bulgarian company KT International SA (formerly King’s Tobacco). The company was founded in 2008 (KTI was renamed in 2016) on the basis of tobacco production of the Bulgarian factory in Plovdiv, leading its history since 1872. And the branded King cigarettes “were born” in 2009 and are now the flagship of the range.
The variety of King cigarettes has seven independent lines and about thirty varieties. The cigarettes of today’s review, The King Original Red, belong to the most numerous line of six varieties, where Red is the strongest. Red King cigarettes are presented in a modern cardboard box with rounded edges, in a bright but simple design. The design is really simple, but quite informative and perfectly memorable.
There are only certain doubts about the legality of this sample… So, cigarettes are modern (the design corresponds to the release of 2016-2017), but do not have “horror stories” in any form, nor an old sample in b/w, nor new multi-color and “life-affirming”. Doubts are also caused by the appearance of the pack, or rather the bottom, where the field for spacer of the batch code, price and other “technical” is absolutely empty.
When you open the pack, an inscription explaining what freshpak technology is becomes visible, the visual designation of which is also available on the outer surfaces of the pack. So, freshpak is, according to the manufacturer’s idea, a particularly dense packing of cigarettes that ensures the preservation of flavor. However, cigarettes are packed in traditional foil paper and there is nothing unusual in this. Let’s say in a pack of modern Marlboro, this technology is more successfully applied.
The pack contains twenty King cigarettes with a conventional acetate filter. There are no questions about the quality of the sleeves and stuffing them with a cigarette mixture. The design of cigarettes is simple, no frills – “cork” camouflage filter paper, silver separating tape and brand name.