The South Korean government, flush with a huge windfall of cigarette tax revenue, is being asked to use some of that money to support quit-smoking clinics.Read More
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Governments around the world like nothing more than taxing smokers, even though smokers often make up the most financially disadvantaged groups.Read More
In South Korea, an August launch has been set for British American Tobacco’s glo tobacco-heating device.Read More
BAT Korea’s Sacheon factory is being readied to become the export hub for British American Tobacco in Asia and to support the sales growth of heated tobacco products.Read More
As expected, Philip Morris Korea is to launch iQOS in South Korea. It is due to go on sale in Seoul on June 5 before being rolled out to the rest of the country later this Read More
IQOS is to be launched in South Korea later this week according to ‘industry sources’ presumably speculating on the subject of a PMI Korea press conference set for Wednesday. Read More
Whether what is being considered is workable or not; at least South Korea’s new regime is trying to address the regressive nature of cigarette taxes.Read More
A candidate in South Korea’s forthcoming presidential elections has vowed to return cigarette prices to the levels of 2014 – before a huge tax increase on January 1, 2015.Read More
As in many other parts of the world, in South Korea it is those on lower incomes who tend to make up most of the country’s smokers.Read More
If you are a South Korean female shift worker in your 50s, you are 5.55 times more likely to smoke than if you are a female daytime worker.Read More