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Caines (cigarette)

Danish cigarette brand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ10439394 ↗
Source-derived summary

Caines is a Danish brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by House of Prince, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. When the factory closed its doors in 2011, British American Tobacco Polska S.A. took over the manufacturing duty and began production of the brand in Latvia., however, the brand is currently produced in Poland.

History

Caines was founded in 1990 during the reconstruction of the Scandinavian Tobacco Group, and are still sold today.

The brand is sold in Denmark, Latvia and Lithuania, but was also sold in Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Czech Republic and Greece.

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The public source identifies “Caines (cigarette)” as danish cigarette brand. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Caines, cigarette and Danish.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Caines, cigarette and Danish providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10439394. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Caines (cigarette)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.