ONTARIO’S TOBACCO INDUSTRY: LESS PRODUCERS, BUT GREATER PRODUCTION
March 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
While Ontario's tobacco growing industry has faced hard times in recent years - with production reaching an all-time low back in 2008 - the sector is now gaining back some of its lost momentum. Tobacco leaf production has stabilised since the removal of the tobacco quota system back in 2009, and the industry is now seeing rising production numbers and renewed interests from the export market.
THE TOBACCO industry of Ontario has certainly faced some challenges and change in recent years: increasing legislation on cigarette marketing, campaigns ...
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