In Kudus (a town in Central Java, known for its cigarette factories), around 100 small cigarette factories have had to stop production. Many of those factories, producing an average 10 to 20 million cigarettes per year, have gone bankrupt. Besides being pressed by high duties, they are not strong enough to compete with the ‘small’ cigarette factories established by big cigarette companies. Previously, they had been choked by the incr