Photo Expansion Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) announced that it will discontinue sales of three brands, "Golden Bat", "Wakaba" and "Echo", as soon as they run out of stock from October. The three brands use low-grade tobacco leaves as raw materials and are called "old third-class products". It was judged that it would be difficult to continue selling cigarette tax because the "old grade 3 special tobacco tax rate" of the tobacco tax reduction measure was abolished at the end of September, and the tax of about 4 yen per bottle was added, and a significant price increase was inevitable. The Golden Bat was released in 1906, Wakaba in 1966, and Echo in 1968. Wakaba and Echo will take over the brand as... [Read more]