Jump to full article: Trinidad Express (tt), 2007-10-23
Author: Joel Julien
Intro: Smokers paid higher cigarette prices when they went to buy their favourite brands yesterday.
A West Indian Tobacco Company Ltd advertisement published in yesterday's newspapers displayed the company's new price list.
The ad noted that the company's Dunhill, du Maurier, Broadway and Pall Mall brands were affected by the increase.
Dunhill has replaced Benson and Hedges.
Compared to the June 18 price structure the new list showed the cost of all full packs being raised by $1 and half packs by 50 cents except for the Pall Mall full flavour half pack which was not affected. . . .
Du Coudray said: "There was a double digit increase in the cost of tobacco leaves. We know there are cheaper leaves available but we could not compromise the high quality consumers have grown to expect from Witco."
He added there was also a "global increase in the cost of plastics and resins, which directly affected the cost of packaging cigarettes".
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