Latin American and Middle Eastern markets (collectively 11%) demonstrate fastest growth in tourism-centric novelty items
They call back to a time before our phones dominated every interaction, when a shared lighter or a simple got a light? could open the door to a memorable moment of connection, conversation, and happenstance
Overnight, it became radically more difficult to reach anything on the Internet outside China
as characters contemplate what love, sex, and physical pleasure mean to them, their thoughts are conveyed via elaborate musical numbers representing their deepest fears, anxieties, and fantasies
It is also customary for the worker who assembled the lighter to engrave their initials in the interior, attesting their pride to have contributed to the production of such a unique item
"When Philip Morris can supply enough to meet demand then its push in to the market is very likely to accelerate," UBS Securities Japan analyst Naomi Takagi said
