New Zealand is using a small electronic-cigarette carrot and a huge excise stick to encourage and beat its way towards its Smokefree 2025 goal.Read More
The South African Government is unlikely to heed a request to halt cigarette excise tax rises if retail prices can be increased by other means.Read More
It would be easier to feel sympathy for cigarette manufacturers caught bang to rights over price rises if their extra earnings had been used to enrich the lives of impoverished tobacco growers.Read More
So many people enjoy shisha in Egypt that the Government was bound to find another way of making money out of its use.Read More
There is something odd when a consumers' organization calls for certain consumers to be hit with eye-watering increases in taxes.Read More
A new EU plan aimed at fighting the illegal tobacco trade proposes a combination of targeted policy and enforcement initiatives, including action by the European Anti-Fraud Office.Read More
Tobacco excise taxes are to fund healthcare insurance for the residents of Kediri City, Indonesia, where Gudang Garam has factories.Read More
Restricting the number of cigarette retailers could make it easier for those wanting to quit. But what about smokers who don't want to quit, especially those with mobility issues?Read More
The EU is said to have encouraged an excise-tax rise that, from the start of this year, increased the prices of cigarettes in Georgia.Read More
A story about how criminals in Wales are using the illegal trade in tobacco products to make vast amounts of money fails to mention tobacco taxes even once.Read More
