Patent ID: 7353940

Claim:
A tongue lid pack for rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising: a box having a front wall, an opening end, two side walls, a bottom wall, and an insertion slit formed in the front wall; contents contained in said box and including a plurality of rod-shaped smoking articles and a wrapper wrapping the rod-shaped smoking articles; a tongue lid jointed to a rear edge of the opening end of said box for opening and closing the opening end, said tongue lid including a lid for covering the opening end of said box, and a tongue connected to the lid through a folding line and being able to be superposed upon the front wall of said box so as to cover the insertion slit; and a joint for separably connecting said tongue lid and said box to each other when said tongue lid is in a state before being opened for the first time, said joint including a pair of guard lugs bonded to respective side walls of said box, and cutting lines for separably connecting the guard lugs to corresponding side edges of the tongue so that after said tongue lid is opened, the cutting lines leave traces indicating that said tongue lid has already been opened.