Smokefree Movies: UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, 2019
The second factor was the restrictive government policies and the absence of commercial treaties to export Cypriot-grown tobacco and cigarettes.Footnote 79 The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce, however, endorsed the recommendations of Corbett to form a tobacco marketing board to purchase all locally grown leaf from registered members, which would then store, grade, and pack it, and sell it to merchants and manufacturers.Footnote 80 In March 1950 the Governor, Sir Andrew Wright, claimed that the devaluation of the Sterling offered better prospects for the Cypriot tobacco industry, provided that a marketing board and a tobacco station were established.Footnote 81 By 1953 only a tobacco station for testing varieties had been established.Footnote 82 Farid Houry, a former major grower, severely criticized Corbetts efforts to develop the tobacco industry in Cyprus

The more recent change in tactics follows another shift from 2020, when the groups moved production closer to end-markets, partly in response to the pandemic disruption, but also reducing the chance of detection
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This marketing contributes to people who identify as Black and smoke being more likely to smoke menthol cigarettes than other population groups