Seven Stars Original Box (14)

セブンスター・ボックス is the box format of the original, added on 1 August 1995. The tobacco is the domestic blend, the filter is charcoal, and the yields are identical to the soft pack at 14 mg and 1.2 mg. Nothing about the cigarette changed; only the packaging did.

That is worth stating plainly because the box is frequently listed as though it were a separate product with its own specification, and every retailer page that treats the two as different variants is repeating a packaging distinction as a tobacco distinction.

The box carries the same 星小紋 star pattern as the soft pack, set on the dark ground that the format has used since it appeared. From 1999 the box design was revised, which is one of only two times the pack has been touched since 1969.

What the numbers say

Spec	Value
Tobacco type	Blended, domestic leaf-centred (国産葉中心)
Tar	14 mg
Nicotine	1.2 mg
Carbon monoxide	not published
Length	85 mm (king size; 80 mm until 1993)
Format	Box, charcoal filter
Packs per carton	not published
Pack price	¥600 JPY
Released	1 August 1995

Priced identically to the soft pack at ¥600, so the format choice carries no price signal — it is a packaging preference, and in Japan a matter of how the cigarette has to be stored and carried.

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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