INTERVIEW WITH THE EUROPEAN SMOKING TOBACCO ASSOCIATION

BY DAVID HAWORTH THE EUROPEAN Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA) represents the interests of the European manufacturers, distributors and importers of fine-cut (rolling) tobacco, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and nasal snuff tobacco. The members of ESTA are mainly small and medium sized companies (SMEs) as well as member associations from the vast majority of the European Union Member States from Norway and Switzerland. Smoking tobacco comprises approximately 9% of the total sales of tobacco products in the European Union: around 8% for fine-cut tobacco and less ...


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