New Zealand is currently behind in its quest to reduce its tobacco-smoking incidence to five percent by 2025, and it isn't going to get there walking. Read More
In Malaysia, taxes on heat-not-burn tobacco sticks are lower than they are on combustible cigarettes. This makes sense because the former is a lower-risk alternative to the latter.Read More
In parts of Pakistan, collecting cigarette taxes is not easy. It becomes easier if the price of the most modest licit cigarettes is as close as possible to the price of illicit cigarettes.Read More
Turkey is attacking smokers from all sides while continuing to grow and export tobacco, to produce and sell tobacco products and, of course, to collect increased tobacco taxes. Read More
Tobacco-product tax increases in Iran have performed well in cutting observable cigarette sales, but these have been replaced in part at least by smuggled products.Read More
A fall in cigarette sales in South Korea has been put down to price increases and tobacco control policies, but a switch to vaping must also have played its part.Read More
Tobacco excise reforms being enacted by the Government of Papua New Guinea are aimed at cracking down on the illegal trade in tobacco products and providing sustainable revenues.Read More
The idea of a universal health care system in the Philippines is a good one, but the costs, as well as the benefits, should be shared universally.Read More
The illegal trade in cigarettes has increased in the countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council since the imposition there of excise tax.Read More
Indonesia is going to rethink its plan to simplify and increase tobacco tax excise. Read More
