British American Tobacco (BAT) has stopped production of cigarettes in Ghana as the country’s parliament looks set to ban smoking in public spaces.
BAT announced on Wednesday that it would now concentrate on distribution and marketing of its brands produced in countries like Benin, Nigeria and South Africa. The decision is to leave 180 employees without jobs. It is also likely to affect tobacco farmers in the country which benefited from the sale of their leaves to the company that manufactured an estimated 150 billion cigarettes per year. It was also generating an average 22 billion cedis per month in taxes and an estimated 300 billion cedis in export earnings. (pi)
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