What is "elita"

Elita is a brand of cigarettes with a filter that was produced between 1967 and 2009 by the Latvian company Rīgas Tabakas Fabrika and later by British American Tobacco. The cigarettes were mostly distributed in Russia, Latvian SSR and Lithuanian SSR. For the production of Elita was used American blend of the tobacco. During Soviet period the cigarettes were produced in the soft packs but after the restoration of independence of Latvia, it was produced in the hard packages with twenty cigarettes in each and was distributed in the blocks consisting of ten packs. There were more than twenty kinds of the packs between 1967 and 2009 belonging to the types KS-20-S and KS-20-H. Trade mark Elita was owned by British American Tobacco.

In 2004 Light branch of the brand was discontinued due to restrictions introduced by European Union’s directive 2001/37/EU; the packages were modernized: health warning area was increased and inscriptions were changed to “Smoking kills” or any other of thirteen variants on the choice of the vendor, also was added an inscription with a volume of tar, nicotine and CO. On the package must be depicted a colorful picture, a barcode and black Der Grüne Punkt are also shown.

Elita may refer to:

• Elita (cigarette)
• Cyclone Elita
• Elita One or Elita, a female Transformer
• Elita (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus