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Tobacco Firms Busily Enticing New African Smokers 

Jump to full article: Panafrican News Agency, 1999-05-29
Author: Peter Masebu, PANA Correspondent

Intro:

Khady is not a football fan but she attends weekend football league matches at Dakar's Leopold Sedar Senghor stadium, where she distributes free cigarettes made by her tobacco company.

Interestingly, most of those who accept the ''poisoned'' present are youths. These would likely have seen the cigarette brand's advertisements which abound in the Senegalese dailies and elsewhere.

Lately, tobacco firms have also erected beautiful retail selling stations at busy strategically located bus stops and other places in the seaside Senegalese capital.

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