Nigeria and Sri Lanka want to ban the practice to make smoking unaffordable.Read More
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Suresh Kumar Shah previously chaired Chamber of Commerce and Employers Federation. Read More
Cigarette sales are recovering following a 38 percent decline in sales during the second quarter of 2020. Read More
By downloading a planned app, people in Sri Lanka will be able to report the activities of the tobacco industry. By not doing so, they'll be able to get on with their lives.Read More
If you are a smoker who lives in a town where the sale of tobacco has been banned, you are inconvenienced. If neighboring towns also introduce bans, you are living a nightmare.Read More
If some tobacco companies in Sri Lanka are becoming involved in the illegal trade, they should be taken to court.Read More
Sri Lanka is to conduct a survey of smoking in the country, presumably to check whether what it has already proposed to do about it makes sense.Read More
A recent report makes the obvious but valid point that cigarette tax increases will have a limited impact on consumption in places where smokers have ready access to illicit products.Read More
A story from Sri Lanka suggests that more than 100 cities have stopped selling cigarettes. It seems unlikely unless addiction isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.Read More
The idea seems to be that Sri Lanka will effectively ban the use of tobacco products by banning in 2020 tobacco growing along with the importation of cigarettes and tobacco.Read More
