World Tobacco Latin America 2008 will be held in Mexico on April

Source from:  World Tobacco 04/11/2008

Sheraton Buganvilias Resort and Convention Center, Puerto Vallarta, 16 - 17 April 2008. The first international tobacco event to be held in Mexico World Tobacco Latin America 2008 is a new event serving the tobacco markets of Latin America and North America, comprising an exhibition with a comprehensive conference running alongside. The conference will give delegates the opportunity to hear from industry leading experts on those issues that affect the global tobacco community. More than 300 billion cigarettes are smoked in the Latin American region every year. A third of these are smoked in Brazil with Mexico the second largest market in the region. Latin America is an important growing region too, with Brazil ranked the third biggest in the world. Mexico is a large exporter of tobacco leaf and more than 25% of all tobacco products sold in Latin America come from Mexico. Mexico has one of highest shares of tobacco sales among Latin American countries, with an estimated 13 million active smokers. World Tobacco Latin America 2008 will give your company the ideal opportunity to access this growing tobacco market. Organised by the people who know the tobacco industry World Tobacco Latin America is organised by the team behind the market-leading publications World Tobacco, World Tobacco for Asia edition, World Tobacco Russia edition, World Tobacco Directory and has more than 40 years?experience in serving the international tobacco industry. As well as the Mexico event, World Tobacco has organised a number of successful conferences and exhibitions over the past 30 years in locations including Dubai, Bali, Kunming, Hong Kong, Prague, Moscow, Vienna, Amsterdam, Geneva, Nice and The Hague. World Tobacco is well placed to organise an event of this stature in this important region for the industry. Enditem