Drina (cigarette)


Drina is a Bosnian brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by the Sarajevo Tobacco Factory. The brand is named after the Drina river, which forms a part of the international border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

History

The brand was founded after the end of World War II in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and quickly became one of the most popular cigarette brands in Yugoslavia, similar to brands like Morava and Vardar. The brand is one of the few ex-Yugoslavian cigarette brands that survived the breakup of Yugoslavia and is still being sold today, even being the most popular brand in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The feature that makes this brand unique is that it uses special Ravnjak type tobacco, instead of traditional Virginia or Burley type tobacco like most brands.

Markets

Drina was or still is being sold in the following countries: Switzerland, Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Variants

Below are all the current brands of Drina cigarettes sold, with the levels of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide included.