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The Cigarette puts politics back at the heart of tobacco's rise and fall, dramatizing the battles over corporate influence, individual choice, government regulation, and science
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In 1949, it was estimated that 18,000 okes of cigarettes were consumed in Cyprus per month, with 14,000 of these being English cigarettes, and the rest locally made Oriental (Greek and Turkish) cigarettes.Footnote 155 Although official statistics are limited, it is indicative that Dianellos, the fourth-largest cigarette manufacturer in 1955 following Ardath, Dianellos & Vergopoulos, and Patiki, claimed to have sold over 150,000 packets of cigarettes in 1955.Footnote 156 The article featuring Dianellos & Vergopoulos in 1956 revealed that thanks to the addiction of Cypriots to cigarettes, the cigarette manufacturing industry in Cyprus was worth over 1 million, and therefore, as with elsewhere across the world, the smoking habit was a delight to the treasury department.Footnote 157 The article featuring the Ardath factory in 1956 stated that millions throughout the world were at that moment smoking cigarettes, that one in four people smoked cigarettes, but in Cyprus, it was at least one in three.Footnote 158 Even more so than the prewar period, advertising played a pivotal role in capturing smokers, especially new smokers, from an early age
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The move also comes at a time when public debate is focused on the potential for e-cigarettes to create a new generation of nicotine addicts
