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CONTENTS
Tobacco Asia Issue 4, 2018 (September / October 2018)
Publisher/Founding Editor
Glenn Anthony John
gaj@octobermultimedia.com
Associate Editor
Nattira Medvedeva
nam@octobermultimedia.com
Contributing Editor
Thomas Schmid
thomas@tobaccoasia.com
Correspondents
Allen Liao (China)
Eric Piras (Cigars)
Art Director
Somjet Thitasomboon
Editorial Assistant
Andrey Medvedev
andrey@tobaccoasia.com
Translations
Liao Tian Liang
Office Assistant
Aek Jekaram
Subscriptions/Administration
Malisa Kongkatitum
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Editorial/Circulation
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FRONT FEATURES
14 Southeast Asia:
Regulation vs Consumption
PRODUCT FEATURES
22 China: Tea-Flavored
Cigarettes Take Off
24 Staying Relevant in
Today's Market
MANUFACTURING FEATURES
32 Nicotine Solutions
38 Combatting Counterfeiting
with Security Printing
44 Smoothing the Way:
Logistics and Warehousing
LEAF TOBACCO FEATURES
54 Star Agritech: Reaching
for the Stars
60 ITGA: Restating Tobacco's
Important Role in Africa
CLOSING FEATURE
66 China: Big Tobacco and
Big Internet Join Hands
70 InterTabac Dortmund
Celebrates its 40th
Features
Departments
6 From the Editor
10 Front Page News
18 Product News
28 Manufacturing News
50 Leaf News
62 Closing News
72 Patents
73 Events
73 Advertisers' Index
COVER: Cigarettes are
a big component of the
InterTabac/InterSup-
ply exhibitions, along
with cigars, hookah/
shisha and vape/new
generation products –
the entirety of tobacco
covered like no other
expo in the world.
Everything from raw materials to manu-
facturing inputs to trade to product manufac-
turing to wholesale, marketing and distribu-
tion to retailers is included. This year the
exhibition will attract almost 600 exhibitors
and 14,000 visitors spread out over 10
sold-out expo halls. You may be reading
this at the 2018 event (Sept 21-23, 2018,
Dortmund, Germany)…and it's not too early
to mark your calendars for InterTabac/Inter-
Supply 2019 (Sept 20-22, 2019, Dortmund,
Germany).
