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Table 1 Tabesa imports of key cigarette components (2015). Source: Compiled from data provided courtesy of BITQ Consulting Services Limited, 2015–2016

From: “We think globally”: the rise of Paraguay’s Tabacalera del Este as a threat to global tobacco control

Cigarette components

Tabesa imports in kgs

Equivalent in bn cigarette sticks

Acetate tow

2,759,406.90

24.88

Cigarette paper

1,322,541.10

35.69

Filter paper

319,549.40

25.30

Tipping paper

847,793.00

36.24

Triacetin

246,800.00

28.19

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Globalization and Health

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