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Cambodia: Fuming cigarette maker exits local industry body
Cambodia: Fuming cigarette maker exits local industry body
Fri, 29 July 2016 – It has only been a week since legislation came into effect that requires cigarette manufacturers to apply graphic images and warning labels to their packaging, yet the tobacco industry has already suffered its first casuality as one of the country?s biggest cigarette distributors announced yesterday that it was severing all ties with the local industry body set up to protect the interests of cigarette producers.
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) declared in a press release that it was ending its affiliation with the Association of the Tobacco Industry of Cambodia (ATIC), a group that includes Cambodia?s two largest tobacco companies ? Viniton Group Co Ltd and British-American Tobacco (Cambodia) Ltd (BATC). Read More?