Packaged tampon and applicator assembly

A package comprising:

• a tampon and applicator assembly comprising a tampon and an applicator assembled together with the tampon and adapted to facilitate insertion of the tampon in a user, the applicator including a gripping portion and an insertion portion;
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• a wrapper for enclosing the tampon and applicator assembly, the wrapper being selectively configurable between a sealed configuration wherein the tampon and applicator assembly are sealingly enclosed in the wrapper and an opened configuration for allowing the tampon and applicator assembly to be removed from the wrapper, the wrapper having a front panel, a back panel, two side edges, two end edges, an interior space, a longitudinal axis, and a transverse axis, the front panel, in the opened configuration of the wrapper, having an opening therein for exposing the gripping portion of the applicator, the insertion portion of the applicator being unexposed in the opened configuration of the wrapper until the user removes the tampon and applicator assembly from the wrapper, the opening extending less than a full length of the wrapper such that the wrapper remains a single piece in the opened configuration of the wrapper.

A package comprising:

• a tampon and applicator assembly comprising a tampon and an applicator assembled together with the tampon and adapted to facilitate insertion of the tampon in a user, the applicator including a gripping portion and an insertion portion;
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• a wrapper for enclosing the tampon and applicator assembly, the wrapper being selectively configurable between a sealed configuration wherein the tampon and applicator assembly are sealingly enclosed in the wrapper and an opened configuration for allowing the tampon and applicator assembly to be removed from the wrapper, the wrapper having a front panel, a back panel, two side edges, two end edges, an interior space, a longitudinal axis, and a transverse axis, the front panel, in the opened configuration of the wrapper, having an opening therein for exposing the gripping portion of the applicator, the insertion portion of the applicator being unexposed in the opened configuration of the wrapper until the user removes the tampon and applicator assembly from the wrapper, the front panel having, in the opened configuration of the wrapper, a pair of spaced-apart longitudinal components extending generally parallel to each other and longitudinally of the wrapper, each of the longitudinal components being spaced inward from the respective side edge.