
A new survey has found that some smokers in the UK are spending £1,000 per year on illegal tobacco, Talking Retail reported yesterday. Read More
A new survey has found that some smokers in the UK are spending £1,000 per year on illegal tobacco, Talking Retail reported yesterday. Read More
In an article published this week, Euractiv cited a European Commission spokesperson stating that the executive body’s proposed track and trace system is fully in line with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s Anti-Illicit Trade (AIT) Protocol, as it gives management of the system over to member states. Read More
Les Echos reported today that France has inserted into its draft 2018 social security financing bill a plan to systematically raise tobacco prices over the next three years. In addition to cigarettes and rolling tobacco, the plan will apply to snuff, chewing tobacco, cigars and cigarillos. Read More
An obvious correlation exists between the highest levels of illegal and non-domestic consumption (e.g. France, UK, Ireland, Poland and Finland) and the highest taxation rates applied to fine-cut toconsbacco, in comparison with cigarettes. The figures clearly show that any alignment of tobacco taxation, regardless of the products’ specificities, will prevent fine-cut tobacco from fulfilling its buffer function, leading to increased illegal trade of cigarettes and driving down government revenues.
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