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Philip Morris Names Threats to Cigarette Market

Philip Morris International Tobacco Company are more concerned with the influence on the sale of tobacco products in recent acceptance of Russia into the WTO, what about the harm to the company need to put it on packs of cigarettes and about anti-smoking campaign.  Philip Morris Izhora, one of the two companies in full cigarette factories in Russia, reducing production by 2 percent last year – up to 70 billion cigarettes a year – at the same time can increase its market share by 0.8 percent to 26.2 percent. “The number of cigarettes produced in plants will not grow in the near future; it drops all over the world,” said Alex Kim, Director of Corporate Affairs of Philip Morris International subsidiaries in Russia and Belarus. “Russia has the second-largest tobacco market in the … Read entire article »

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