Glad tidings for tobacco firms, smokers

Two players drive the global to­bacco industry – the legal and the illegal players. While the former group comprised the registered corporate entities that have known ad­dresses, business structures and em­ployees, who pay the appropriate taxes and comply with laws of the different countries in which they operate, the latter group is unknown and cannot be regulated. Examples of the legal players in the country are the British American Tobacco Nigeria, International Tobacco Company, Ilorin, and Leaf Tobacco, Ka­duna.