Halls is the brand name of a popular mentholated cough drop. Halls cough drops (categorized as a cough suppressant/oral anesthetic by the manufacturer) are sold by the Cadbury-Adams Division of Cadbury, now owned by Mondel?z International, and have long been advertised as featuring "Vapor Action". Halls was first made in the 1930s in Stanley Road, Whitefield, Lancashire, United Kingdom by the Halls Brothers company (founded 1893). Halls Brothers was acquired by Warner-Lambert in 1964. Production in Whitefield ceased in the late 1980s. When Pfizer acquired Warner-Lambert in 2000, the Halls brand came with the entire Adams portfolio (which included Trident gum, Dentyne, Chiclets and Freshen Up, among others). Two years later, Adams was bought out by Cadbury, who were subsequently purchased by Kraft foods, which was later restructured and renamed Mondel?z International - as of 2015, Mondel?z International owns the Halls brand worldwide.
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Varieties
- Air Mint (only available in Argentina)
- Black Cherry (sugar free)
- Blackcurrant
- Blackberry-Lyptus (only available in South America)
- Canada Dry Ginger Ale
- Caribe (only available in Mexico)
- Chela-Limón (Beer & Lemon) (only available in Mexico)
- Cherry
- Citrus Blend
- Colours
- Creamy (Available in Brazil)
- Fresh Mint
- Fruit Explosion (Available in Brazil)
- Blueberry Fruit Explosion (Limited edition flavour available in Brazil)
- Green Tea (only available in Japan and China)
- Green Grapes (only available in South America)
- Grape (only available in Mexico)
- Harvest Peach with Soothing Honey Center (Halls Naturals)
- Honey-berry (sugar free)
- Honey-Lemon
- Ice Blue Peppermint
- K-fe (Coffee, word play of the Spanish pronunciation of the letter K, only available in Mexico)
- Kiwi-Apple (sugar free)
- Lemon Pie (only available in South America)
- Licorice (sugar free available in Denmark)
- Mentho-Lyptus (i.e. menthol and eucalyptus)
- Mint & Chocolate (only available in Mexico)
- Mountain Berry with Soothing Honey Center (Halls Naturals)
- Mountain Menthol (sugar free)
- "Naturals" including Sweet Herbal Mint
- Orange
- Paloma (only available in Mexico)
- Peppermint with Vanilla Crystals (in Brazil)
- Piña Colada
- Peach (only available in Mexico & South America)
- Pomegranate
- Raspberry
- Refresh (Extra Moist)
- Spearmint
- Strawberry
- Strawberry Filled with Chocolate (in Brazil)
- Sunshine Citrus (Halls Naturals)
- Sweet Herbal Mint (Halls Naturals)
- Tropical Fruit
- Watermelon (in Brazil, Argentina And Thailand)
In the UK
The following Halls varieties are listed on Cadbury's UK web site.
- Mentho-lyptus Blackcurrant
- Mentho-lyptus Extra strong
- Mentho-lyptus Honey & Lemon
- Mentho-lyptus Ice cool
- Mentho-lyptus Original
- Mentho-lyptus Sugar-Free Cherry
- Mentho-lyptus Sugar-Free Original
- Soothers Blackcurrant
- Soothers Cherry
- Soothers Honey And Lemon
- Soothers Peach And Raspberry
- Soothers Strawberry
- Fresh & Cool
- Zingy Citrus
- Strawberry Wave
The "Soothers" varieties do not list menthol on their ingredients and their packaging does not describe them as a medicine or specify any dosage instructions, but supermarkets frequently categorise them as common cold treatment.
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Drug information
The menthol ingredient acts as local anesthetic and "creates a cooling sensation". Also acts as a cough suppressant.
- Cherry
- Honey-Lemon
- Honey-Lemon Chamomile
- Ice Blue Peppermint:
- Intense Cool:
- Mentho-Lyptus:
- Mentho-Lyptus Extra Strong Menthol:
- Mountain Menthol (Sugar Free):
- Spearmint:
- Strawberry:
- Sunshine Citrus
- Sweet Herbal Mint
- Tropical Fruit:
- Wild Cherry
- XS Sugar Free Lemon
- XS Sugar Free Mint
Additional information
The Halls Defense line consists of flavorings containing Vitamin C but do not contain menthol or suppress coughs.
Halls Fruit Breezers, launched as a non-mentholated lozenge, comes in many flavors such as: Cool Berry, Cool Creamy Orange, Cool Creamy Strawberry, Tropical Chill, and Cool Citrus Blend.
Halls also produces a sugar-free line of mentholated cough drops.
In some parts of the world, including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, the Philippines, and Pakistan, Halls is advertised as a mentholated hard candy and is not recognized as a medicine for coughs. In the UK, Halls Extra Strong has recently dropped all mention of an active ingredient (or of coughs) from the packaging, and now describes the contents as "Extra Strong Original flavour hard boiled sweets."
In 2015 the renowned actor Jeff Goldblum almost choked on a Halls cough drop. The event was broadcast on American television channel TBS.
In 2016 Halls was one of the biggest selling branded over-the-counter medications sold in Great Britain, with sales of £32.5 million.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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