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These companies leverage extensive manufacturing capabilities, vertically integrated supply chains, and strong regulatory expertise to navigate complex compliance requirements while maintaining scale advantages

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HEETS contain real tobacco but are heated instead of burned, meaning they produce fewer harmful chemicals than cigarettes and do not create ash or smoke

MTC allows growers to keep a percentage of initial tobacco sales to pay school fees, rather than requiring the payment for those sales to be immediately returned to pay off the debts acquired by the growers for inputs from the company

Over the 15-year period we analyzed, the retail value of cigarettes remained relatively steady in HICs

Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Fernando Coronil , a Venezuelan citizen, is Associate Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program