TY - JOUR T1 - Niger: beauty and the beast JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 11 LP - 11 DO - 10.1136/tc.11.1.11 VL - 11 IS - 1 AU - David Simpson Y1 - 2002/03/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/1/11.1.abstract N2 - While much attention is given, deservedly, to the expansionist tactics in the developing world of the big three tobacco transnationals—Philip, BAT, and Japan Tobacco—several smaller tobacco companies are busily emulating them. In Niger, as in other French speaking west African countries, the dominant tobacco company since colonial times has been Seita, the former French tobacco monopoly now merged into Altadis along with its Spanish counterpart Tabacalera. Capitalising on Letka (The Flock), a … ER -