One of the more absurd aspects of the international tobacco market is that one cigarette brand can be made by two different tobacco companies. This means that smokers of a particular cigarette brand, when travelling overseas, may buy what they think is their usual brand, only to find that the overseas version, despite outward appearances, is an entirely different product. It may be made by a company that is a competitor of the one that makes their cigarettes back home, and is likely to contain different tobacco leaf, additives, and other ingredients.

This is true of Benson …