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Growth of the Super Slim market
The slim and super slim cigarette market continues to grow from strength to strength. In a year alone this segment has grown +21.3% to 169.4 billion cigarette sticks sold in 2007 globally.
Russia has overtaken South Korea as the largest market for slim and super slim cigarettes with 40.5 billion cigarettes sticks sold in 2007.
Western Europe is the fastest growing region in the world which increased by 22.9% between 2006-2007 (excluding Russia's exceptional growth rate in Eastern Europe).
The fastest growing national markets for this segment are Greece, Czech Republic, Georgia and Romania. All have roughly doubled between 2006-2007 and at least 1 billion slim or super slim cigarettes sticks were sold.
Filtrona Filter Products' wide range of Super Slim filter types also offers a lower cost option to access this fastest growing segment in the global cigarette market: Super Slim Randomly Orientated Acetate filters provide up to a 20% weight saving and do not have to use premium priced tows. Read more
