not so surprising. 英美煙草公司 dominate international market, in history and now. now 英美煙草公司 are having hard time to make business in developed world so they have to make money from somewhere, under developed world is the best market for 英美煙草公司 at this moment. in fact, the less developed countries are the only profitable markets for 英美煙草公司.
china has the world's largest smoking population and it is the gold mine for 英美煙草公司.