LD (short for Liggett Ducat, the name of the original manufacturer) is an international brand of cigarettes, currently owned by Japan Tobacco.

[3] Liggett Ducat was bought in 2000 by the Gallaher Group,[3] which in turn was acquired by Japan Tobacco International (JTI) in 2007.

[4][5] The original Liggett Ducat factory in Moscow where LD was manufactured, was shut down in 2016.

[6] Later LD was manufactured in Saudi Arabia in 2020[4][7] In 2016, JTI announced it would introduce the LD brand on the United States cigarette market with the Red, Silver, and Menthol (Green) varieties.

[1][2][8][9][10][11][12] Beyond Russia and the United States, the brand has been sold in other global markets, including but not limited to Austria, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Romania, Mongolia, Taiwan, and Jordan.