South Korea’s revenue from cigarette taxes was down by 9.2 percent last year, on volume cigarette sales down by less than that amount.Read More
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Government-imposed taxes and sundry levies are pushing the prices of heat-not-burn products higher in South Korea.Read More
The threat of bigger graphic health warnings in South Korea is not causing too much concern among cigarette manufacturers. Smokers might feel otherwise.Read More
It will be interesting to see what will be depicted if, as suggested, South Korea requires ‘stronger pictorial warnings’ on heat-not-burn products.Read More
A poll on cigarette-pack graphic-warnings was weighted towards non-smokers. Even so, the adults in favor of increasing the size of such warnings only just outnumbered those against.Read More
In some early-take-up markets, demand for heat-not-burn products is starting to have a measurable effect on international trade.Read More
Depending on your definition of a multi-national tobacco company; either KT&G is one or is well on its way to becoming one.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
A report in The Korea Herald seems to suggest that smokers won’t be safe from the prying eyes of the ‘managing authorities’, even while in the bath.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