The full version of this story from Australia provides some telling figures on the country's high-tax policy and how that policy eventually fails. But there is another way.Read More
UK smokers cite high tobacco prices as the main reason why they buy illicit products; and given that taxes make up 90 percent of prices, it is not difficult to see where the problem lies.Read More
The UK Government has no plans to impose a new tax on vaping products; as had been suggested in media reports at the beginning of August.Read More
Despite the measures already taken against the illegal trade in tobacco products, the EU Commission is reflecting on whether it should take further action.Read More
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The Japanese system whereby tobacco manufacturers must apply to the Government before they can increase prices is a good one. Consumers are probably better informed that way.Read More
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Israel looks to ban Juul
In taxing heat-not-burn products in the way it did, Israel seemed to fly in the face of the idea of relative risk. Now, with a plan to ban Juul, it seems to have lost the Read More
If reports that the UK Government intends to impose an excise tax on vapers to provide funds for the health service turns out to be true; it would be a case of robbing Peter to Read More
Authorities are unlikely to root out tobacco smuggling until they dispense with the fiction that they are 'losing' revenue to this trade; that they are somehow victims rather than the cause of it. Read More
It is unclear from a story about New York whether raising cigarette taxes reduces consumption or reduces the consumption of licit cigarettes only.Read More
The blame for the UK's illegal trade in tobacco is placed firmly on the shoulders of smokers and smugglers, but neither of these groups created the conditions for this trade to grow. Read More
