One way to reduce the illegal trade in tobacco products is to cut the taxes imposed on them, but it is a strategy open to challenge.Read More
Recent levies imposed in South Korea on heat-not-burn products has caused Philip Morris to raise the retail price of HEETS.Read More
If 15 countries ban electronic cigarettes while 160 don’t, and your country is one of the 15; it stands to reason that you might want your government to look again at the reasoning behind its policy.Read More
The serious lack of funding provided by US states for prevention and cessation programs indicates that they are not serious about getting people to quit tobacco.Read More
Tobacco taxes in the Philippines will rise by just over eight percent during the first half of next year, and by just under eight percent during the second half of the year.Read More
An anti-tobacco advocate in the Philippines has warned committee members who support an ‘insufficient’ five pesos rise in tobacco taxes that they will have blood on their hands if the rise is adopted.Read More
The more that governments denigrate tobacco consumption, the more they are able to use the industry as a tax milch cow, even to the detriment of impoverished farmers and farm laborers.Read More
It must say something for their past or future profits if the suppliers of heat-not-burn refills don’t raise retail prices following a 72 percent increase in the taxes imposed on these products.Read More
Without any hint of irony, a heading on a story in Indonesia said: Finance Minister looks at tobacco taxes to solve gaps in health funding.Read More
Taxes on both combustible cigarettes and heat-not-burn products are expected to be increased in Japan as part of the government’s fiscal 2018 'tax-reform' package.Read More
