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Egypt’s leading cigarette producers, Phillip Morris Egypt and Eastern Tobacco, announced price hikes to their products on 14 November amid rising production costs. Phillip Morris’s product line includes Marlboro, Merit, L&M, and HEETS. Marlboro of all types now cost EGP 69 (USD 2.23), Marlboro Crafted EGP 59 (USD 1.91), Merit EGP 74 (USD 2.39), L&M LE 50 (USD 1.62), and HEETS of all types cost EGP 56 (1.81). Eastern Tobacco, famed for their Cleopatra cigarettes, also updated several of their…