Fake Mastermind cigarettes grab 80pc market share

BAT Kenya wants the State to spare the new non-combusted cigarettes from higher ‘sin tax’.

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Cigarette manufacturing company Mastermind Tobacco says 80 percent of its flagship brand in Kenya is illicit.

In a statement, Mastermind noted that the local market is flooded with up to 80 percent of products bearing the name of Supermatch, which it notes is smuggled into Kenya from neighbouring Uganda.

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