How one state-owned
cigarette company profits
through Lebanon's crisis

TRTWORLD

Cheap filter cigarettes produced by Regie are in demand as various people, from Syrian refugees to low-income people, are chain-smoking them, braving the odds.

Business is brisk at the Regie Libanaise des Tabacs et Tombacs, Lebanon’s government-owned tobacco company.

Production of the Regie’s Cedars cigarettes is up 50 percent, from roughly 65,000 master cases- or 500 packs of cigarettes- produced per month in 2019, to over 100,000 produced in November 2021. FULL STORY