Senior Service was a British brand of filterless cigarettes, owned and manufactured by Gallaher Group, a subsidiary of Japan Tobacco.
[2] Senior Service was sold mainly in the United Kingdom, and also in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and South Africa.
It had opened in 1905, and manufactured cigarettes until 1999, when production was moved to Northern Ireland[17] The pack is white, with an orange-blue stripe at the top.
James Bond smokes Senior Service cigarettes in Ian Fleming's novels, Goldfinger, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and The Man with the Golden Gun.
They are mentioned in the film The Bank Job Patricia Routledge, playing the mundane monologuer Kitty, first originated on Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, describes the fictional and unseen producer of the supposed television show as stubbing out her Senior Service when they meet.
The Still Game episode “Aff” from 2004 features pensioner Winston Ingram favouring the brand, declaring "Senior Service, nae arsing aboot wi yer poofy Silkys", referencing to the difference in strength of tobacco between Senior Service and Silk Cut.
Pack of Senior Service was filmed in HBO Series Pacific Part3 Ep3 on table in pub smoked by Sgt John Basilone played by Jon Seda In The Zone of Interest (novel) in chapter III ("Grey Snow"), the protagonist Angelus Thomsen asks a British inmate if he likes Senior Service cigarettes.