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Production of Cigarettes Decreased By 87.5% in Azerbaijan 

Compared with the same period of 2002 the cigarette production in the first quarter of 2003 decreased by 87.5%.
Jump to full article: Baku Today (az), 2003-04-24

Intro:

Azerbaijan made 218.4 million cigarettes in the first quarter of 2003. Almost 50% of them, i.e. 107 million cigarettes were made in March.

European Tobacco-Baku (ETB), i.e. the only authorized cigarette producer in Azerbaijan explains the fall with the lack of the subsidiary raw material, i.e. paper, filters. The amount of the ready product stored in the warehouses has decreased from 2,094.6 million to 1,586.2 million cigarettes this year.

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