Seven Stars Menthol 5

セブンスター・メンソール・５・ボックス launched on 14 April 2014, the same day as the Menthol 12, and is the low end of the current menthol line. At 5 mg it is also the lowest-yield Seven Stars JT currently lists, now that the 1 mg and 4 mg variants have been withdrawn.

Its lineage is documented even though its current sale is not. A セブンスター・アラスカ・メンソール・ボックス sat at 5 mg and 0.4 mg from December 2008 to May 2014, and Wikipedia names this product as its successor — the same relationship the Menthol 12 has to the Deep Menthol.

Its availability is genuinely unclear, and this entry says so rather than guessing. JT’s own current Seven Stars product table lists eight products and this is not among them. ja.wikipedia’s current-products table lists ten, including this one, with its release date, price, count, tar and nicotine, and marks its sales region as 全国 — nationwide. So the manufacturer’s own page and the reference work disagree about whether the product is currently sold at all.

It is recorded here as current on the strength of the more detailed reference, with the conflict stated in the open. If JT’s table is authoritative and the product has quietly been withdrawn, this entry should be moved to discontinued with a date nobody has published yet. That correction is cheap to make and the alternative — presenting an unverified status as settled — is not.

What the numbers say

Spec	Value
Tobacco type	Blended, domestic leaf-centred (国産葉中心), menthol
Tar	5 mg
Nicotine	0.5 mg
Carbon monoxide	not published
Length	85 mm (king size)
Format	Box, filtered (charcoal filter), menthol
Packs per carton	not published
Pack price	¥600 JPY
Released	14 April 2014
Availability	in conflict — see above

The 5 mg point is also where Japanese labelling convention runs out of room: the withdrawn 1 mg product sat below it, and there is nothing below that in the current range.

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
• Current status for this variant is not confirmed by JT’s product table; see the entry body.