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This box was sold in Siberia near the year  1970. The story is about the cigarettes that come inside the box.

The tobacco part of the cigarette in the brown one. The long one (white) isn't a filter, instead it's a very resistance cylinder pasteboard. As in Siberia the weather is so cold, people has to wear thick gloves. The white part is made of that pasteboard because people used to press the cigarette so it couldn't fell and that why is so resistance. The cylinder gets a little pressed but smoke continue passing and the cigarette is finally smoked without getting smashed.

This cigarette doesn't have a filter.

(The old design cigarette pack belongs to Fabio Ferrarini, an old Argentinean cigarette collector. I don't have it, so if you have it repeated please get in contact with me. Thanks Fabio !!!!)