4 tobaccoasia Issue 3, 2020 July / August
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CONTENTS
Publisher/Founding Editor
Glenn Anthony John
gaj@octobermultimedia.com
Associate Editor
Nattira Medvedeva
nam@octobermultimedia.com
Contributing Editor
Thomas Schmid
ths@octobermultimedia.com
Correspondents
Josh Doyle (Korea)
Allen Liao (China)
Art Director
Somjet Thitasomboon
Translations
Tobaccochina Online
Office Assistant
Aek Jekaram
Subscriptions/Administration
Malisa Kongkatitum
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Editorial/Circulation
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10 Q&A: It's All in the
Processes
FRONT FEATURES
18 Tobacco to the Rescue:
Covid VAX Trials Underway
PRODUCT FEATURES
24 Growing: Middle East and
African Tobacco Business
28 STMA's "Internet Plus"
Terminal Marketing Efforts
MANUFACTURING FEATURES
32 World-Class Track-and-
Trace from Propix
36 Korea: Breaking into
Cigarette Making
LEAF TOBACCO FEATURES
40 Reconditioned Tobacco
Products Grow in China
44 Covid and the 2020
Tobacco Season
CLOSING FEATURE
50 Paying It Back: Tobacco
Industry CSR Activities
Features
Departments
6 From the Editor
14 Front Page News
22 Product News
30 Manufacturing News
38 Leaf News
48 Closing News
54 Events
56 Patents
57 Advertisers Index
Cover: From BAT's cigarette factory
in Sacheon, Korea.
Tobacco Asia Issue 3, 2020 (July / August)
The pandemic has caused much
disruption in the 2020 tobacco
marketing season.
Cleopatra, from Eastern Company, has
been the leading cigarette brand in
Egypt for decades
