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We want to be able to provide [our customers] with the products they expect to find at a general retailer, grocery or convenience store, Dan MacDonald, senior director of corporate communications for Dollar General, told Forbes

The most common pack size worldwide contains 20 cigarettes

It set up separate companies in various territories to manufacture vending machines to sell not just chocolate, but cigarettes, matches, chewing gum, and soap products

The perception that alternatives are safer likely drives some of this shift

Meanwhile, Godfrey Phillips India, the maker of Four Square and Red & White, also holds a significant share