Is bigger better? The organisers of Tabexpo think so and judging by previous events thousands of other tobacco "professionals" agree and are willing to risk blisters to walk the vast exhibition halls of the event.rnThe landscape of the tobacco industry has changed a great deal since the last Tabexpo closed to visitors in Barcelona four years ago. The industry remains in flux with the consolidation of major players, then a possibility, now a reality. Equally the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control treaty had been signed but the effects - bans on public smoking, advertising and sponsorship and graphic health warnings among them - are now being phased in and are issues the industry is learning to cope with.
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