China’s smokers keep Cuban cigar sales growing

(euronews.net) Cuba’s cigar makers say sales are increasing despite the effects of anti-smoking laws coming into effects in many countries. ... China has now become the third largest market for Cuban cigars behind Spain and France knocking Germany down into fourth place.
Habanos generated 268 million euros in sales last year, an important source of foreign currency for the communist led island, but it is blocked from the US, the world’s biggest single consumer of cigars, because of a trade embargo. Continued

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