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Guest is Jason Tian, the international representative of 2Firsts which is the most subscribed professional news media reporting on China's e-cigarette industry. It offers public database of the licensed Chinese manufacturers, and follows closely the global corporate and government affairs related to the e-cigarette industry. Jason talks to us about recent developments in China, which could effect the global supply and supppliers of NGP products, brands, hardware.

Our guest is Oscar House, the c.e.o. and president of Intertabac exhibitor US Tobacco Cooperative, a farmer owned flue-cured tobacco marketing cooperative in Southeastern United States.

Our guest is Aron Byrne-Carter, managing director of NGP Trends, which provides reports, workshops and consulting on.trends in NGP. We talk to Aron to get an overview of the direction that the NGP industry was headed this year, in both trends and products.

Dr Roger Penn is a well known figure in the global tobacco industry. Most know him from his 22 years at leading flavor/fragrances houses Firmenich, IFF and most recently Mane Suisse.

Roger is now the principal consultant for Las Casucha Consulting working form his bases in Indonesia and France. Roger’s experience in toxicology and developing tobacco products with major manufacturers goes back a long way and today, here’s here to talk about the history and development of smokeless cigarettes (or heat-not-burn products or heated tobacco products) going back to the late 1980s.

Justo Rico, well-known personality in the tobacco industry and principle of PCB (Premium Cigar Brands), headquartered in Barcelona, is a long time veteran of the global cigar business – selling and manufacturing premium cigars and securing tobacco.
Justo talks to us about his business and the global world of cigars from Europe to Africa to Asia.

Rom Soriano is a young Israeli who invented something that sounds just as crazy as it sounds intriguing: the self-igniting cigarette.
But how does it work? And is it scalable for mass production?

Tobacco Asia’s Thomas Schmid talks to Soriano’s business partner, Roy Weisberger.

As several changes face the cigar industry, the Tobacco Asia podcast welcomes David Ozgo, president of the Cigar Association of US, the leading US trade cigar group to share his views on increases in the premium segment, decreasing venues for purchase and consumption, new flavor regulations, supply chain problems, and the US-Cuban cigar ban.

Packaging materials and paper notably use many resources and the processing can contribute to environmental degradation. Our guest is Liem Khe Fung, innovations director at BMJ (Bukit Maria Jaya) who discusses how his company is leading the way in managing resources and sustainability in its manufacturing processes.

Now that the masks have come off and and most countries have opened up again, and the tobacco industry— a notoriously travel-heavy industry — can take to the air again. Our podcast guest is Dr. Iqbal Lambat, CEO and president of Istanbul-based Star Agritech International, a medium-sized supplier of tobacco leaf and reconstituted tobacco. He’s a very avid traveler and will give insights into a handful of tobacco countries he is looking at.

Gory warnings and plain packaging have disrupted the normal production/distribution of tobacco products and to most accounts, they have been a total failure in their express goal in reducing tobacco consumption. Instead, plain packaging destroys branding and makes life much easier for counterfeiters. Our guest is Mike Ridgway, long time consumer packaged goods expert and current director of the Consumer Packaging Manufacturers Alliance to talk to us about gory warnings, plain packaging and what the future holds for regulatory overreach on tobacco products globally.