Gawith Hoggarth manufactures an extensive range of hand-pipe tobaccos, hand-rolling tobaccos, chewing twists and nasal snuffs for sale in the UK and globally online. The company also imports and distributes tobacco products from many of the world’s most prestigious tobacco companies and stocks a range of tobacco and smoking equipment.
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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