Given that vaping can be effective in encouraging – a word used advisedly here – people to quit smoking tobacco; a tax on e-liquids seems to be a tax on good health.Read More
Watching the fight between the tobacco industry and its opponents over track and trace systems is like watching two hairy women fighting over a toothless comb.Read More
Electronic cigarettes seem to instil in some authorities a sense of panic that is not detectable in the case of far-more-risky combustible cigarettes.Read More
A claim that encouraging leaf tobacco exports from Bangladesh would discourage the domestic consumption of tobacco products seems to stretch credulity.Read More
A manufacturer price-increase on cigarettes will be ushered in along with a tax rise in Japan later this year.Read More
Cigarette tax increases included in Bangladesh's proposed 2018-19 budget are said to be insufficient to keep the country on track toward its 2040 tobacco-free goal.Read More
The Tobacco Industry of Cambodia is reforming to tackle more effectively the country’s illegal trade.Read More
Imposing excise tax on electronic cigarettes to curb tobacco consumption will work only if e-cigarettes are defined as – or deemed to be – tobacco products.Read More
In Australia, where tobacco prices are astronomically high, the fall in the number of smokers has been tiny. Perhaps it should try nicotine-delivering electronic-cigarettes.Read More
Even if, as seems likely, sin is evenly distributed through society, 'sin taxes' impact the financially poor disproportionately.Read More
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