Seven Stars 4

セブンスター・4 launched on 1 July 2014 and was withdrawn on 26 June 2023, nine years and change later. It sold in packs of twenty for ¥600 at 4 mg and 0.4 mg.

It was one of four Seven Stars variants launched on the same day — the 1, the 4, and soft-pack reissues of the 10 and the 7. It is the only one of the four that carried a ¥600 price; the 1 mg launched at ¥460. Two of the four survive as boxes, the two soft packs were dropped in 2018, and this one went in 2023. The refresh mostly did not survive.

Its withdrawal matters for reading the current range honestly. A brand that had a 1 mg and a 4 mg option until 2023 now bottoms out at 5 mg with the menthol variant whose own sale status is disputed, or 7 mg in the non-menthol line. That is the direction the brand moved in.

What the numbers say

Spec	Value
Tobacco type	Blended, domestic leaf-centred (国産葉中心)
Tar	4 mg
Nicotine	0.4 mg
Carbon monoxide	not published
Length	85 mm (king size)
Format	Box, filtered (charcoal filter)
Packs per carton	not published
Pack price	¥600 JPY at withdrawal
Released	1 July 2014
Withdrawn	26 June 2023

No reason for the withdrawal is published. Recorded because an archive’s job includes noting what stopped existing and when, not only what is on sale.

Rating

None yet. All three axes are zero, which the site reads as “not rated” rather than as a score of nought, so the rankings table shows a dash until somebody writes them.

Sources

• Tar, nicotine, count, price, release dates — JT Seven Stars family
• Blend, formats, availability channel, withdrawal dates, discontinued SKUs, nicknames, sales history — Japanese Wikipedia: セブンスター