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  2. Egyptian cigarette industry - Wikipedia

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    The development of a major cigarette industry in Egypt in the late nineteenth century was unexpected, given that Egypt generally exported raw materials and imported manufactured goods, that Egyptian-grown tobacco was always of poor quality, and that the cultivation of tobacco in Egypt was banned in 1890 (a measure intended to facilitate the collection of taxes on tobacco).

  3. Smoking in Egypt - Wikipedia

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    This industrial growth was surprising as Egypt primarily focused on exporting raw materials and importing finished goods until then. Despite facing challenges such as poor-quality Egyptian-grown tobacco and a tobacco cultivation ban in 1890, the Egyptian cigarette industry thrived and became renowned in the region. [4]

  4. Thomas Saywell - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Saywell. Thomas Saywell (1837–1928) was an English-born tobacco manufacturer, property developer, mine owner, and business person in New South Wales, Australia. He is particularly associated with the Sydney suburb of Brighton-le-Sands and the coal mines of Lithgow and the Southern Coalfields.

  5. Tobacco industry - Wikipedia

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    The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. [1] It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it can be farmed on all continents except Antarctica .

  6. Illicit cigarette trade - Wikipedia

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    This resulted in the withdrawal of major international tobacco firms, and a tax loss of $63 million due to the proliferating illicit market. Tobacco Atlas estimates that if illicit trade was eliminated, $31.3 billion in tax revenue would be gained, and 164,000 premature deaths would be avoided annually due to higher average cigarette prices. [22]

  7. Pan African Tobacco Group - Wikipedia

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    Around 1970 the group's Rwandan founder, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa (c. 1941 – 2024), started to import wheat, flour, salt and cigarettes into Burundi from Tanzania. [2] By 1974 cigarettes were becoming his main import. [3] In 1978 he decided to use his profits to manufacture cigarettes in Burundi rather than importing them. [2]

  8. Smoking in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Smoking in Saudi Arabia is banned in airports, [1] workplaces, universities, research centers, hospitals, [2] government buildings, all public places, [3] places involved with tourism, and in and around all places associated with religion, education, public events, sporting establishments, charity associations, all forms of public transport and their associated facilities, plants for ...

  9. Islamic views on tobacco - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic views on tobacco vary by region. Though tobacco or smoking in general is not explicitly mentioned in the Quran or hadith , contemporary scholars have condemned it as completely harmful, and have at times prohibited smoking outright (declared it haram ) as a result of the severe health effects that it causes.