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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
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| | International: Russia and the former Soviet Union |
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| | In Russia, RJ Reynolds supports a national lottery called "Lotto-Million". All sales |
| | points in Moscow for the lottery are decorated with the Camel trademark. |
| | Tobacco Control, Summer 1994, p. 147 |
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| | Russian television viewers and readers of magazines and newspapers have been |
| | deluged with Western-style advertisements for cigarettes and alcohol - mostly foreign |
| | brands - since the late 1980's. On February 18, 1995, President Boris Yeltsin issued |
| | a decree banning all tobacco and alcohol advertising as a threat to public health. |
| | Reuters, February 19, 1995 |
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| | "Downtown Kiev has become the Ukrainian version of Marlboro country, with the gray |
| | socialist cityscape punctuated with colorful billboards of cowboy sunsets and chiseled |
| | faces." |
| | Washington Post National Weekly Edition, November 25-December 1, 1996, p. 6 |
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| | A new cigarette brand called Lolita has been introduced in Russia. It is packed in a |
| | gold box and features on the cover a reclining bare-breasted young woman apparently |
| | dressed only in black stockings and stiletto heeled shoes. |
| | Tobacco Control, Winter 1995, p. 328 |
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| | A new cigarette in Russia, "Peter the First", is named after the 17th century tsar who |
| | introduced tobacco and other western customs to Russia. It comes in a black and |
| | gold package featuring the double-headed eagle, the symbol of Russian imperialism. |
| | The cigarettes are manufactured by the R. J. Reynolds tobacco company at a plant |
| | near St. Petersburg. RJR acquired its first Russian factory in 1992, and now has 20% |
| | of the country's cigarette market. |
| | Oakland Tribune, September 14, 1997, p. A14 (Cox News Service) |
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