Lucky Strike is the brand name of a cigarette variety of British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's second largest tobacco company. In the United States, cigarettes have been sold under this name since 1917. For Germany, the known from the occupation of filterless Lucky Strike since 1960 produced by BAT, the introduction of the Lucky Strike Filters was 1989. In 2005, the brand reached a total market share of 5.6%. The smoke of a Lucky Strike Original Red cigarette contains an average of 10 mg tar, 0.8 mg nicotine and 10 mg carbon monoxide.