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Hes a big cigar smoker. Before long, smoking cigars became more than just a celebratory indulgence
Many companies contribute, as do individuals and even natural sources such as wind-blown dust, volcanoes and forest fires
Often, synthetic is associated with toxic and natural with harmless
At VMR, we find that the Traditional Cigarettes segment remains the definitive market volume leader, historically consuming the vast majority with estimates suggesting it accounted for over 70% of total filter tow demand in recent years due to the sheer scale of the global conventional cigarette industry, particularly across the high volume, consumption intensive markets of Asia Pacific (led by China and India)
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