Halls (cough drop)
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Halls is the brand name of a popular mentholated cough drop. Halls cough drops (categorized as a cough suppressant/oral anaesthetic by the manufacturer) are sold by the Cadbury-Adams Division of Cadbury plc and have long been advertised as featuring "Vapor Action". Halls was first made in the 1930s in Britain by the Halls Brothers company (founded 1893). Halls Brothers was acquired by Warner-Lambert in 1964. 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 the Hall family, the company that currently owns the Halls brand worldwide.
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[edit] Varieties
- Black Cherry (sugar free)
- Blackberry-lyptus (only available in South America)
- Canada Dry Ginger Ale
- Cherry
- Citrus Blend
- Coffee
- Fresh Mint
- Green tea (only available in China)
- Harvest Peach with Soothing Honey Center (Halls Naturals)
- Honey-berry (sugar free)
- Honey-Lemon
- Ice Blue Peppermint
- Kiwi-Apple (sugar free)
- Lemon Pie (only available in South America)
- Lime
- Mentho-Lyptus (i.e. menthol and eucalyptus)
- Mountain Berry with Soothing Honey Center (Halls Naturals)
- Mountain Menthol (sugar free)
- "Naturals" including Sweet Herbal Mint
- Orange
- Paloma
- Peppermint with Vanilla Crystals (in Brazil)
- Piña Colada
- Pomegranate
- 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 and Argentina)
[edit] 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 Peach And Raspberry
- Soothers Strawberry
[edit] Drug information
- Cherry
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 7 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: Eucalyptus Oil, FD&C Blue 2, FD&C Red 40, Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Soy Lecithin, Sucralose, Sucrose, Water
- Honey-Lemon
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 9.1 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: Beta Carotene, Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Honey, Soy Lecithin, Sucrose
- Honey-Lemon Chamomile
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: citric acid, flavorings, ginger, glucose syrup, honey, lemon grass, sage, :sucrose, tea extract, water, white thyme
- Ice Blue Peppermint:
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 10 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: Blue 1, Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose
- Mentho-Lyptus:
- Active Ingredients: Menthol 6.5 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose
- Mountain Menthol (Sugar Free):
- Active Ingredients: Menthol 5.8 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: Acesulfame Potassium, Aspartame, Eucalyptus Oil, FD&C Blue 1, FD&C Red 40, Flavors, Isomalt, Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose, Soy Lecithin, Water
- Spearmint:
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 5.6 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: Beta Carotene, Blue 1, Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Soy Lecithin, Sucrose
- Strawberry:
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 3.1 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Red 40, Sucrose
- Sunshine Citrus
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: beta carotene, citric acid, flavorings, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, :sage, sucrose, water, white thyme
- Sweet Herbal Mint
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: Caramel, flavorings, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, sage, sucrose, water, white thyme
- Tropical Fruit:
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 3.1 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: FD&C red no. 40, Flavorings, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose, Water
- Wild Cherry
- Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg
- Inactive Ingredients: citric acid, elderberry juice, flavorings, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, sage, sucrose, water, white thyme
[edit] Additional information
The Halls Defense line consists of flavorings containing Vitamin C but do not contain menthol and 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[1], Argentina, Peru, Colombia[2] and the Philippines, 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, which now describes the contents as "Extra Strong Original flavour hard boiled sweets."
