EX-YUGOSLAVIA TOBACCO SECTORS FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL IN GLOBALISED INDUSTRY
March 24th, 2022
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompting memories of the violence marring the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the war is a warning that economic trends can and do flow regardless of political turmoil – and the tobacco industy is not an exception this rule. The former communist state of Yugoslavia had a robust tobacco sector, with more than 10 tobacco factories and over 50 domestic cigarette brands in the late 1960s. Once the country broke up, while this tradition of tobacco production continued was inherited by most of the former Yugoslav states, ...
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