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Jump to full article: Trinidad Express (tt), 2009-02-16
Author: Peter Christopher
Intro: Cigarettes will burn a bigger hole in smokers' pockets from today.
Champs Fleurs-based producer the West Indian Tobacco Company Ltd yesterday announced price increases across several cigarette brands.
From this morning, the prices of Dunhill, du Maurier, Pall Mall and Broadway will retail at higher prices. . . .
Witco executive Jean-Pierre Du Coudray said then the increase was caused by three factors: an increase in the price of raw materials, especially imported tobacco leaf and the rising cost of oil on wrapping material; rising global costs of transport, freight and insurance; and the impact of inflation on workers' salaries.
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