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markets with high taxes on cigarettes, manufacturers offer
RYO and semi-manufactured cigarettes to avoid high retail
prices. Western Europe and Canada have been the sites of
most of this activity. Marlboro and Camel RYO and rolls
(for insertion into pre-made filter tubes) from Germany
illustrate this phenomenon. (1994)
Camel Minis (Germany, 1994) are a throwback to the 70
mm filtered cigarettes of the 1950s. There has been speculation
in the trade press that these could be made as 140 mm
doubles (to be cut in half by the consumer) and sold at
half the tax rate. A test of such a version has been reported.
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