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Para cada paraguaio, 8 maços por dia [For each paraguayan, 8 packs a day] 

Brazil exported 113 billion cigarettes to Paraguay in the decade of 90. The best year for the industry was 1994, when vendas for the neighboring country had added 23 billion cigarettes. It was the sufficient so that each Paraguayan living creature in that year smoked eight cigarette mallets per day. . .

Estimates divulged for Souza Cross on the Brazilian market suggest that 17 billion cigarettes and 3 billion fakes had been smuggled for Brazil in 1994, equivalents 20% of vendidos cigarettes legally in the country. They is esteem that the Paraguayan plants at the time produced 2 billion cigarettes per year. . .

The documents gotten for the Value are the first ones where executive of Souza Cross and the BAT they inside argue the contraband of Brazil, but similar evidences, involving other subsidiary ones of the group with the illegal market in other parts of the world, had appeared with frequency in the last years.

With base in these evidences, the Européia Union and the 26 regional departments of Colombia are demanding bilionárias indemnities of the Philip Morris, the BAT and the R. J. Reynolds in the United States.

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