A predicted drop in cigarette sales in South Korea this year is being put down to higher taxes, smoking restrictions and graphic health warnings.Read More
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The cigarette manufacturer KT&G has ambitions to knock one of the multinationals out of the top four places of tobacco manufacturers by 2025.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
With the obvious exception of PloomTECH, it seems to be de rigueur for the names of HNB devices to start with a lower-case letter.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
Despite an 80 percent cigarette-tax rise at the start of 2015 and the introduction of graphic health warnings in 2016, smoking among adult men remains high in South Korea.Read More
Although banning the sale of heat-not-ban devices to minors is laudable, the threat of jailing those that do so with three years in prison seems disproportionate.Read More
The consumable elements of heat-not-burn products look likely to incur a significant tax increase in South Korea.Read More
One of the effects of the South Korean government’s tobacco tax hike at the beginning of 2015 was to encourage the import of electronic cigarettes.Read More
A tax increase that almost doubled the price of cigarettes in South Korea at the start of 2015 was apparently not enough to satisfy the World Health Organization.Read More
