Parliament Aqua Blue

The Philip Morris company founded a solid and successful Parliament brand in 1931. The first cigarettes with the sonorous name Parliament were equipped with a unique charcoal filter made of ordinary cotton fabric. Later it was replaced by a dense paper filter, half hollow as a mouthpiece. This innovation in cigarette manufacturing technology contributed to the cooling of tobacco smoke and this particular softness of taste.

The Philip Morris company was known for its attentive approach to the consumers of its products and care for them. Philip Morris International uses only the highest sorts of tobacco for the manufacture of the Parliament brand cigarettes. Manufacturing technologies are adhered on the highest level throughout the existence of the brand. Therefore, the brand has retained its original taste.

Wise advertising campaign, high quality cigarettes of the Parliament brand and careful pricing policy provided this brand high popularity in the markets. Already in the early 40s of the last century, the brand took a good position in the US market.

For the first time outside the United States Parliament cigarettes were imported in the 1970s. It should be noted that from the large range of company products, Parliament were the first cigarettes to cross the borders of the USA.

In different countries, cigarettes of Parliament brand are perceived differently, and smokers of these cigarettes are different segments of society. In its homeland, Parliament is less successful as brands such as Marlboro and Camel. In America, the consumer of these cigarettes is an ordinary resident, in Russia VIP-category, in the EU the brand is aimed at the average consumer, in France Parliament cigarettes are preferred by about 12% of women, and only 6.5% of men; in England these cigarettes are popular with young people (19%), very often they can be seen in clubs, at night parties.

Parliament cigarettes are characterized by a rather sharp taste. Three sorts of tobacco are used for their production: "Virginia", "Burley" and a blend of Oriental tobacco. The first mentioned sort is often called light tobacco, because its leaves after drying acquire shades ranging from Golden yellow to bright orange, Burley tobacco sort usually has a brown colour of different saturation. Oriental tobacco is characterized by a strong aroma and its small leaves are collected by hand. Virginia tobacco sort dried using hot air in special rooms, so it is called pipe-dry tobacco, this process takes a week. Burley tobacco sort dried in the shade in the open air, this process is stretched for two months, resulting in the leaves lose almost all the sugar and taste begin to resemble cigar tobacco. Eastern tobacco is dried outdoors under the sun. Mixing in a certain proportion of the leaves of these tobacco composes so called American blend.

Special ingredients are added to the prepared tobacco blend. This is done for two reasons: to compensate for the loss of sugar lost during the drying of Burley tobacco sort and give each brand an individual taste. However, not only the sort of tobacco leaf is a determining factor in the manufacture of Parliament cigarettes, but many others. Another important point – the type of tobacco leaf, which is sorted depending on the colour, quality and position on the stem.

Parliament Aqua Blue is most popular flavour. This flavour is very popular among both men and women. This falvour is advertised as the least harmful, it is weak enough to bring harm to health, but strong enough to satisfy the need for nicotine. Each pack contains 20 cigarettes. Each cigarette contains of 0.4 milligrams of nicotine and 5 mg of tar per cigarette.