Foreign-brand cigarettes accounted for a record-high market share of 25 percent in the first half of fiscal 2000, according to an industry association.
Sales of foreign brands have been increasing in Japan since the 1985 market deregulation and accounted for one in every four cigarettes sold in Japan between last April and September, the Japan Tobacco Association reported.
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