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• Právo: Foreigners raid Czech cigarette market  

Jump to full article: Prague Daily Monitor (cz), 2008-05-13

Intro:

Foreigners buy roughly one-fourth of the 73 billion pieces of cigarettes annually sold in the Czech Republic where tobacco products are still cheaper than in Germany or Austria despite the gradual increase, the daily Pravo writes today.

A cigarette shopping spree is widespread in the border areas, Pravo writes.

"Last year, foreigners took some 5.6 billion cigarettes out of the Czech Republic. Conversely, some 1.8 billion cigarettes were taken to the Czech Republic from Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia," Kamil Provaznik, an executive of the company Imperial Tobacco, told the paper.

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