Aren’t most of these NPM products made in foreign countries with foreign tobacco?
Many of the NPM products are manufactured overseas, but the same is true for big tobacco. While Big Tobacco continues to shift its manufacturing and tobacco purchases to overseas sources, there have been a growing number of NPM manufacturers in America. Many of these companies make it a point to use domestic tobacco as a marketing tool. At a recent congressional hearing, Big Tobacco manufacturers refused to reveal the amount of domestic content in their products. Many of the tobacco companies (King Maker Marketing, Japan Tobacco International, Lignum-2 Inc.) that have lobbied the states to pass anti-NPM legislation are foreign corporations.
