"Quoting Annahar Newspaper site"
La Regie Libanaise Des Tabacs Et Tombacs (Regie) got its first privilege during the French mandate and it remained until after Lebanon’s Independence. And in spite of the international warnings about the dangers of smoking on the health, the majority of the Lebanese society is known to smoke. As of 1993, after the new management of Regie took office, the work of Regie developed rapidly as it started offering services to the farmers across different regions and worked to control smuggling operations through the Syrian borders.
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Regie garners great attention and importance for many reasons, namely the fact that it is a public facility still functioning from 83 years.
Other important reasons are listed blow in brief:
The activity of Regie reaches thousands of farmers since the consumption of tobacco in cigarettes and tombacs in shishas are both activities practiced by millions of people.
Smoking has become condemned by international organizations among them the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) that has called for banning the sale of packed tobacco and its planting, if possible. Further to this, it was also decided to stop all tobacco advertisements after being produced for tens of years and linking between manhood and smoking.
The WHO recommendations also call for banning smo