Packet for smoking articles

A packet for smoking articles, comprising:

• an external shell with an access aperture;
• and
• an internal shell to contain smoking articles provided with a rear wall comprising one or more upper folding flaps delimited by a folding line,
• wherein the external shell comprises:
• an external containing body,
• a closing lid hinged to the internal shell by means of a hinge defined by said folding line and able to position itself between an open condition in which it allows access to the smoking articles contained in the internal shell, and a closed condition, in which it closes said access aperture of the external shell, said closing lid being provided with a rear wall, two opposite lateral walls and a front wall which is opposite the rear wall when the closing lid is in the closed condition, and
• a connection tongue configured to connect the closing lid to the external containing body, said connection tongue being part of said rear wall of the closing lid and being delimited laterally by two incisions, or notches which define one or more smaller lateral panels of the rear wall of the closing lid, said one or more smaller lateral panels being attached to said one or more upper folding flaps and rotatable around said folding line which said hinge defines,
• wherein the internal shell is configured to slide, with respect to the external containing body, between a closed configuration, where the internal shell is completely inserted inside the external shell and where the closing lid is, in its closed condition, completely outside both the internal shell and the external containing body, and an open and extracted configuration where the internal shell is partly extracted from the external containing body, and
• the external containing body, the closing lid, and the connection tongue which form the external shell have no other functional apertures to put said internal shell in said open and extracted configuration.