An important international meeting take place in Dublin today calling on European governments to set even higher taxes on all smoking products. Presented by the Irish Heart Foundation and the Irish Cancer Society, the European Smoke Free Partnership is urging for cigarettes taxes to be used as the “main weapon” in decreasing smoking rates. The [...]
Like a lot of Spaniards, Alicia García has been obliged to make big sacrifices because of the country’s crisis. The 32-year-old cosmetician started to smoke only a pack of cigarettes per day, but now she smokes only five cigs. “Unfortunately smoking habit has become too expensive for me. Now I should think twice before I decide to [...]
The Hawaii state legislature is debating a bill that would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors and impose the 70% tobacco tax on the devices, according to a report by the Hawaii Reporter. All of the testimony favored a ban on sale of the products to minors, but more than 1,000 individuals and [...]
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No Comments »The study found that the new tax would have a significant effect on the state’s overall economy because Californians would smoke less and spend their money in other ways. The initiative, the California Cancer Research Act (CCRA), is on the statewide June 5 ballot. If the measure is approved, state cigarette taxes would rise by [...]
Despite this year’s poor tobacco prices that have contributed to the country’s worsening economic woes, the market season has registered the largest tobacco volumes sold than ever, the Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) has said. As of last week, the market had sold just over 235 million kilogrammes of both burley and flu-cured tobacco, beating the [...]
Posted in Cigarette Tax, Tobacco reviews Tags: cheapest chesterfield cigarettes, tobacco sales No Comments »Thousands Virginia tobacco farmers and provincial officials aired their protest against a proposed bill seeking to restructure the excise tax collected from alcohol and tobacco through an indignation rally on Tuesday. Tobacco farmer leader Benjamin Sarmiento said House Bill 5727, authored by Representative Joseph Emilio A. Abaya (1st district, Cavite) seeking to restructure the excise [...]
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