The Demerara Tobacco Company Limited (Demtoco) is prepared to welcome tougher cigarette packaging rules once legislation to address this issue is presented.
“Once it comes into effect, we will do all that we need to do to ensure that we comply,” Managing Director Malissa Sylvester told Stabroek News on Wednesday. She said that Demtoco will implement whatever is required by law related to packaging, noting “that is almost universal; I know a lot of countries that have done it.”
In response to a query about the effect this will have on the company, Sylvester said such a change will have a cost attached but Demtoco is prepared to deal with this. “For example, if they have to put a picture,
