Halls (cough drop)

  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-Schweppes. Halls were first made in the 1930s, in Britain, by the Halls Brothers company (founded 1893). Halls Brothers was acquired by Warner-Lambert (since merged with Pfizer) in 1964, and the Halls brand by Cadbury-Schweppes in 1971. Halls is now a worldwide brand.

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Halls, which have long been advertised as featuring "vapor action", are made in the following flavors:

• Canada Dry Ginger Ale
• Citrus Blend
• Cherry
• Coffee
• Honey-Lemon
• Ice Blue Peppermint
• Mentho-Lyptus
• Spearmint
• Strawberry
• Tropical Fruit
• Pina Colada
• "Naturals" including Sweet Herbal Mint

Green Tea flavor is also available in China.

Drug Information

• Wild Cherry

Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg

Inactive Ingredients: citric acid, elderberry juice, flavors, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, :sage, sucrose, water, white thyme

• Sunshine Citrus

Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg

Inactive Ingredients: beta carotene, citric acid, flavors, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, :sage, sucrose, water, white thyme

• Honey-Lemon Chamomile

Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg

Inactive Ingredients: citric acid, flavors, ginger, glucose syrup, honey, lemon grass, sage, :sucrose, tea extract, water, white thyme

• Sweet Herbal Mint

Active Ingredient: Menthol 2.5 mg

Inactive Ingredients: Caramel, flavors, ginger, glucose syrup, lemon grass, sage, sucrose, water, white thyme

• Cherry

Active Ingredient: Menthol 7 mg and 12.8 mg of Eucalyptol combined

Inactive Ingredients: Blue 2, Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Red 40

• Honey-Lemon

Active Ingredient: Menthol 8 mg

Inactive Ingredients: Beta Carotene, Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Honey, Soy Lecithin, Sucrose

• Ice Blue Peppermint:

Active Ingredient: Menthol 11.2 mg

Inactive Ingredients: Blue 1 Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose

• Mentho-Lyptus®:

Active Ingredients: Menthol 6.5 mg

Inactive Ingredients: Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose

• Spearmint:

Active Ingredient: Menthol 5.6 mg

Inactive Ingredients: Beta Carotene, Blue 1, Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Soy Lecithin, Sucrose

• Strawberry:

Active Ingredient: Menthol 3.1 mg

Inactive Ingredients: Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Red 40, Sucrose

• Tropical Fruit:

Active Ingredient: Menthol 3.1 mg

Inactive Ingredients: FD&C red no. 40, Flavors, Glucose Syrup, Sucrose, Water

Additional Information

The Halls Defense Line consists of flavors containing Vitamin C.

Halls Fruit Breezers, launched as a great tasting, non-mentholated lozenge comes in: Cool Berry Cool Creamy Orange Cool Creamy Strawberry Tropical Chill Cool Citrus Blend

There is also a Sugar Free line of mentholated cough drops.

Outside North America, Halls is more advertised as a mentholated hard candy, manufactured in hard candy shapes and is not recognized as cough drops.

Eating an entire package of Halls at once will make you quite sick.