Taiwan anti-smoking campaigner calls for halt to Japanese tobacco plant construction

scmp.com – 21 de Agosto de 2015 – Taiwan

An anti-smoking group in Taiwan has urged the Taiwanese government and a Japanese tobacco giant to immediately halt plans to build a factory in the south of the island.

Calling the investment plan a “hoax”, Yau Sea-wain, chief executive officer of John Tung Foundation, told a press conference that while Japan Tobacco International (JTI) – the international tobacco division of Japan Tobacco Inc. – claimed it would spend NT$9.27 billion (HK$2.2 billion) on building the plant, it was expected to milk more from its loyal Taiwanese customers through increasing prices of its some 20 brand products by NT$10 to NT$30 per pack.

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