Zimbabwe, usually in the news because of its leaf production, is currently in the news over an issue more usually associated with other countries: the illegal trade in cigarettes.Read More
Opinion is apparently divided in Singapore as to whether smokers will put up with a price increase on manufactured cigarettes or vote with their feet.Read More
Sales of fine-cut tobacco have been making headway in Australia, partly on the back of tax increases that have rendered this product competitively priced against manufactured cigarettes.Read More
Tobacco excise has been increased by 10 percent in Singapore on the promise that such a rise will reduce demand for cigarettes by four percent.Read More
What should a government – any government – do if its stated aim of using taxation to force smokers to quit comes into conflict with its less-well-advertised aim of increasing revenues?Read More
Tourists visiting Macau, many of them probably unaware of local customs, are bearing the brunt of fines being handed out for smoking infractions.Read More
A question has been raised about the possible de facto ban on the export of cigarettes from the EU to countries that won’t accept track-and-trace coding on tobacco packaging.Read More
A budget proposal that would have increased significantly the duties imposed on cigarettes sold in Iran is being looked at again.Read More
The number of cigarettes smuggled into Iran fell sharply during the first 10 months of the current financial year, but local cigarette prices are set to rise by 50 percent.Read More
The Philippines’ government seems intent on burdening smokers with crippling levels of taxes as part of a policy that seems likely to backfire to the cost of the wider community.Read More
