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Sales of Cigars are Soaring

| January 14, 2011

best cigarettes shop onlineCigarettes makers’ loss could be cigar manufacturers’ gain. Thanks to the curbs on cigarette manufacturers, the main driver for the $13.5 billion Indian tobacco market (excluding bidis) could be high-value cigars and cigarillos (a narrower version of cigars) that until last year were all imported brands like Dunhill. In January 2010, however, ITC Ltd, the country’s leading cigarette manufacturer with a 70 per cent of the share of the market, introduced Armenteros hand-rolled cigars through an exclusive tie-up with La Aurora, one of the oldest cigar manufacturers in the Dominican Republic.

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Women are the Main Target of Cigarettes Makers

| May 19, 2010

Chinese Smoking WomanThe number of female smokers in the country may see a sharp rise as Chinese women have become the main target of tobacco companies, a government official said recently. Li Xinhua, a division chief with the Ministry of Health’s department of women, children and community health, said Chinese female smokers will probably jump by 10 percent if the government does not impose stricter control on smoking products.

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