"Smoking Tobacco in Ukraine" Now Available at Fast Market Research
In Ukraine, smoking tobacco is a niche product. During Soviet times, RYO tobacco was purchased as a cheap alternative to cigarettes. Very frequently, newspapers were used instead of special paper for cigarettes in order to reduce the price of the final product. The entry of multinationals in cigarettes hit RYO tobacco particularly hard. Smokers increasingly opted for industrially manufactured cigarettes (those who preferred strong tobacco opted for unfiltered varieties) and RYO tobacco started...
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