Natural American Spirit - wikipedia Natural American Spirit Natural American Spirit Product type Cigarette Owner Reynolds American Produced by Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Introduced 1982 ; 35 years ago ( 1982 ) Website Official Website Natural American Spirit ( often referred to as American Spirits ) is an American brand of cigarette and fine tobacco products, manufactured in the United States by the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company. The company was founded in 1982 by Bill Drake, author of `` The Cultivators Handbook of Natural Tobacco '', Robert Marion, Chris Webster, and Eb Wicks, a plumbing contractor who took out a loan to finance the startup. In January 2002 the company was acquired by Reynolds American and is now a wholly owned independent subsidiary of Reynolds American, which is in turn 42 % owned by British American Tobacco. Japan Tobacco announced in September 2015 that it acquired the right to sell Natural American Spirit products in markets outside the United States. Contents 1 Marketing controversy 2 Products 2.1 Cigarettes 3 References 4 External links Marketing controversy Natural American Spirit products are `` 100 % Additive - Free Tobacco '', though they include the standard generic Surgeon General tobacco warning on the packs in accordance with federal regulation standards, which currently states `` no additives in our tobacco does NOT mean a safer cigarette ''. This was part of an FTC ruling in 2000 and agreement resulting from allegations that the advertisement of additive - free cigarettes made consumers feel that the product might be less addictive or safer than regular cigarettes. Research by US and German government health agencies found significant levels of nitrates in some types of pure additive - free tobacco and its smoke. California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced on March 1, 2010, that his office has secured an agreement with Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc., the manufacturer of American Spirit tobacco products, that requires the company to clearly disclose that its organic tobacco is `` no safer or healthier '' than other tobacco products. Attorneys General from 32 other states and the District of Columbia signed onto the agreement : Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. An ad from 2013 advertising various Natural American Spirit brands Products Cigarettes Natural American Spirit offers various types of select filter cigarettes which are color coded to denote the nicotine and tar content. But the nicotine and tar contents which are released are altered by using different filters and cigarette paper. American Spirit also has a Perique Blend Filter cigarette, which contains 10 % Perique tobacco, and an Organic Filter cigarette, which contains organic tobacco. Natural American Spirit also offers several `` Roll Your Own '' tobaccos in tins and pouches, which currently do not include cigarette rolling papers. References Jump up ^ ( 1 ) Jump up ^ `` R.J. Reynolds buys Santa Fe Natural ''. Lakeland Ledger. Raleigh. 23 November 2001. Retrieved 27 December 2014. Jump up ^ `` JT Acquires Natural American Spirit Business outside the United States '' ( PDF ). Jt.com. Retrieved 2016 - 11 - 14. Jump up ^ `` Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. ''. Federal Trade Commission. 16 June 2000. Retrieved 27 December 2014. Jump up ^ Fischer, Sophia ; Spiegelhalder, Bertold ; Preussmann, Rudolf ( 1989 ). `` Preformed tobacco - specific nitrosamines in tobacco -- role of nitrate and influence of tobacco type ''. Carcinogenesis. IRL Press. 10 ( 8 ) : 1511 -- 1517. doi : 10.1093 / carcin / 10.8. 1511. Retrieved 26 April 2009. Jump up ^ `` Brown Secures Agreement with American Spirit Cigarettes Maker over Alleged Misleading Marketing of Organic Tobacco Products ''. State of California Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General. 1 March 2010. Retrieved 27 December 2014. California Attorney General 's Press Release March 01, 2010 ^ Jump up to : `` Cigarettes ''. Natural American Spirit Germany. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company : Germany GmbH. 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014. External links Company website Reynolds American R.J. 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Question: what kind of tobacco is in american spirits
Answer: standard generic Surgeon General tobacco