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• Guernsey Tobacco rolls up as smoke ban bites 

JOBS will go as the smoking ban proves to be the final straw for Guernsey Tobacco.
Jump to full article: Guernsey Press, 2007-10-20
Author: Nicci Martel

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Guernsey Tobacco Ltd will close its doors for the last time at the end of the year. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0495125)

The manufacturer, which is owned by Sandpiper, will cease trading at the end of the year when its lease on a property in the Braye Road Industrial Estate expires.

‘Tobacco consumption has fallen in both the UK and Guernsey because of health lobbying and duty increases,’ said Paul Luxon, managing director of Cimandis, the parent company of which is Sandpiper.

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