Once again, UK smokers, many of whom are financially poor, are being forced by the Chancellor to pay more than their fair share to the government’s coffers.Read More
The availability of electronic cigarettes is one of the reasons given for a drop in smoking in New Zealand; a drop that has been most marked among teenagers.Read More
Thailand is to earmark two percent of its revenue from alcohol and tobacco excise taxes to help its financially-impoverished senior citizens. Read More
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Questions are being raised in Canada about whether a similar pricing strategy to the one being suggested for legal marijuana should be applied to tobacco.Read More
The government of South Korea is having to guard against bulk buying and hoarding after it was decided to hike the taxes on heat-not-burn sticks.Read More
The Philippines’ Department of Finance says that it expects JTI Philippines to pay about P2 billion more a month in taxes than was paid by the company it took over, Mighty Corporation.Read More
The end game is in sight. England could quit smoking by 2040 according to a new report prepared for Philip Morris Ltd; or it could quit by 2029 given certain interventions.Read More
It seems premature to claim that a 2015 tax hike in South Korea was effective in reducing the incidence of smoking among low-income earners. Their numbers increased last year.Read More
Seventy-six percent of people in the UK believe that tobacco taxes there are at about the right level or too high, indicating perhaps that the public recognizes that enough is enough.Read More
A tax is being imposed on e-liquids sold in Indonesia partly on the grounds that the ‘main ingredient of vape liquid is tobacco’.Read More
