The group remains on track to deliver full-year net revenue growth of around 0-1% and underlying operating profit growth of 1%
--File--A customer holds a box of Zhonghua cigarette at a store in Anyang, central Chinas Henan province, 29 August 2011

JTs businesses include a Japanese domestic tobacco business and Japan Tobacco International (JTI), headquartered in Geneva.[408] JTIs Agricultural Labor Policy (ALP), which applies to all of its direct-contracted growers, includes child labor elimination, and states that children shall not carry out activities such as crop harvesting or other activities related to physically handling green leaf tobacco, carrying heavy loads, or those involving handling or application of crop protection agents.[409] The policy allows children ages 16 and above to carry out such tasks, where national law permits it, but requires the health, safety, and moral of the children to be fully protected, including [by] comprehensive specific training.[410] Concerning nicotine poisoning, JTI requires growers to make workers aware of the risks of GTS and apply reasonable measures to limit its risk, in line with JTI guidance supplied to growers

The cigarette industry's substantial investment in marketing and promotional activities significantly influences consumer behavior and sustains market demand