China’s smokers keep Cuban cigar sales growing

Tuesday, February 22 2011

Cuba’s cigar makers say sales are increasing despite the effects of anti-smoking laws coming into effects in many countries.

Organisers of the annual cigar festival in Havana said sales rose two percent last year increasing in China and the Middle East.

Habanos, jointly owned by Cuba’s government and UK based Imperial Tobacco, dominates sales for hand-rolled, premium cigars, except in the US, and the company’s joint President Jorge Luis Fernandez Maique seemed unphased by new smoking restrictions in their number one customer Spain, where sales fell by a third in January.

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