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''''Various kinds of leaves are mixed. They taste terrible and the quality is quite inferior,'''' a JT public relations official said. So far, five people have been arrested on suspicion of violating Japan''s Trademark Law, and more than 200,000 packs bahiagold of counterfeit cigarettes have been confiscated.Tsuneo Iioka, 51, the prime suspect in the case, has allegedly told police a Chinese national talked him into the smuggling operation around 1996 while they were serving prison sentences together in Japan.Iioka, who runs a bone-setting clinic in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, said that, using the Chinese national as an intermediary, he traveled to Fujian Province.While there he had 575 cardboard boxes of forged cigarettes bahiagold hidden under sandals shipped to Yokohama port in mid-May and then sold them to brokers for between 120 yen and 150 yen a pack, he said.The joint police investigation task force believes Iioka is behind the smuggling of all counterfeit cigarettes found throughout Japan from northeastern Japan to Kobe in western Japan and Okinawa.Japanese is printed on the packages of the smuggled cigarettes, and quarters concerned agree that they were manufactured deliberately for Japan. But police officers say they fail to understand why the smugglers went through so much trouble to import cigarettes that smokers can easily identify as fake once they light up.The margin of profit for Iioka''s operation was about 80 yen per pack, with the deal yielding around 20 million yen at most.''''The tobacco business cannot be done without a policy of maintaining a narrow profit margin and a large sales volume. A ''market survey'' might be the purpose this time,'''' a police officer said.
Rising prices and wholesalers fed up with restrictive contracts pushed on them by big tobacco companies are turning the U.S. market into the land of opportunity for foreign-made cigarettes as seen by the proliferation of such discount brands at the International Tobacco Expo in Las Vegas last week. Ironically, some products, like Columbus, manufactured bahiagold in Hong Kong and imported by Multinational Tobacco, Miami, are positioned overseas as an affordable full-flavored American smoke. Now that higher prices here are prompting consumers of value brands like Doral, GPC and Basic to consider alternatives, Columbus--discover of the Americas, get it?--is flaunting its American blend bahiagold pedigree bahiagold as a badge of quality priced between premium and generic cigarettes.
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