Health groups in Hong Kong on Monday called for a sharp rise in tobacco duty as a study revealed cigarettes in the city are among the cheapest in the developed world.
Buying 1 000 cigarettes of one brand in Hong Kong costs just 217 US dollars (about R1 673) compared to 409 US dollars in New York and 503 US dollars in London.
Those cigarettes would also cost significantly more in Melbourne (277 US dollars), Singapore (361 US dollars), Paris (361 US dollars) and Dublin (577 US dollars), the survey found.
The study by health groups in Hong Kong was released ahead of Wednesday's budget when financial secretary John Tsang is under pressure to push up the price of cigarettes in the city of 7-million.An open letter to the Hong Kong government signed by health advocates including World Health Organization advisor Judith Mackay says a 10 percent price rise could save thousands of lives.
"There are about 750 000 smokers in Hong Kong," the letter said. "One in two smokers is killed by disease caused by tobacco. Each 10 percent rise in price will prevent at least 18 000 deaths.
"Effective taxation must be 75 to 80 percent of the retail price (of cigarettes) whereas currently in Hong Kong, it is only between 61 and 66 percent."
Smoking in bars and restaurants and many public places in Hong Kong was banned from January 2007 although a powerful lobby group won temporary exemptions to the ban for many venues.
понедельник, 22 февраля 2010 г.
понедельник, 15 февраля 2010 г.
Creek smokeshops still selling disputed cigarettes
After telling a federal court that it would stop supplying its affiliated smokeshops with controversial cigarettes, the Muscogee Creek Nation is allowing the stores to seek and stock the cigarettes on their own, a World investigation shows.
The Oklahoma Tax Commission seized 77 cases of Seneca brand cigarettes Wednesday, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in Tulsa County District Court.
The cigarettes were headed to Riverside Smokeshop in Tulsa and had a value of $103,000 once sold to the public, said Paula Ross, a Tax Commission spokeswoman.
Karen Goodson, the manager of Riverside Smokeshop, said the seizure should ot have occurred.
"It is a sovereignty issue that needs to be decided by the court once and for all," Goodson said.
In January, the Creek Nation temporarily suspended distribution of Seneca brand cigarettes through its wholesale company in Okmulgee pending the outcome of an injunction filed in U.S. Eastern District Court in Muskogee, records show. The suspension also includes King Mountain cigarettes manufactured in Washington state by a tribal entity. Seneca is manufactured in Canada, also by a tribal entity.
The cigarette seizure is part of the state's ongoing pressure to force the Creek Nation to sign a tobacco compact or face further confiscation of unapproved cigarettes, records show. The conflict began in 2005 when the Creek Nation opted out of renewing its compact because of alleged unfair negotiation practices by the state.
Meanwhile, the Indian-based company that sold the cigarettes to the Riverside store said the cigarettes were sold with the knowledge of the Creek Nation.
"It is my hunch that the smokeshop was acting under the licensure of the tribe and with full knowledge of the tribe," said Lance Morgan, CEO of HCI Distribution, an economic development corporation of the Winnebago Tribe in Nebraska.
Morgan said that the Muscogee Creek nation had a temporary license with HCI, which expired Friday.
Creek Nation spokesman Thompson Gouge said the tribe could not comment on the cigarette seizure or the tribe's suspension on stockpiling Seneca or similar cigarettes.
Tax commission officials contend that Seneca and King Mountain cigarettes are contraband smokes not listed on the state's approved list of cigarette brands sold in Oklahoma. The cigarettes are competing heavily with other discount brands and allegedly bleeding off millions of dollars of tax revenues intended for health initiatives and smoking-cessation programs. The cigarettes are being sold by Creek-affiliated stores without an Oklahoma tax stamp.
Tribal officials contend that they can provide such cigarettes without paying taxes to Oklahoma because the cigarettes are tribal-to-tribal sales that are exempt from state taxation.
Four weeks after the tribe temporarily suspended stocking the cigarettes for its affiliated stores, the World purchased packs of Seneca at three Creek-affiliated stores in Sapulpa, Glenpool and Tulsa. King Mountain cigarettes were not available.
King Mountain officials said they could not comment on the absence of their cigarettes in the Tulsa area.
Two additional stores visited by the World did not sell the cigarettes. In the past, most of the Creek-affiliated stores within the Tulsa area have refused to sell the cigarettes, saying they are "illegal" when asked why they don't sell them.
Meanwhile, area smokeshops appear to be fully complying with a new state law that requires retailers to sell cigarettes that inhibit accidental fires.
Of the cigarettes recently purchased by the World, all of the packs, including contraband brands, had fire-safe paper. The paper involves tiny bands within the paper that act like speed bumps while the cigarette is burning.
Records by the Tulsa Fire Department reveal that cigarettes were the No. 1 heat source for fatality fires in Tulsa during the past seven years.
Between 2001 and 2008, 59 people lost their lives to fires caused by cigarettes or smoking material.
Capt. Jeff Vandolah of the Tulsa Fire Department said it is too early to determine if fire-safe paper is decreasing the number of accidental fires.
The new state law requires cigarettes to be sold with "fire-safe" cigarette paper, which allows the cigarette to extinguish itself if it is left unattended.
The law took effect Jan. 1, 2009, but to delay the law's effect, several area smoke shops reportedly were selling old inventory bought before the law took effect and were allowed to sell old inventory until Jan. 1, 2010.
In October, 10 months after the law took effect, the World bought several packs of discount-brand cigarettes without fire-safe paper at smoke shops. The tribal stores stated the stock was old stock bought before the law took effect.
The Oklahoma Tax Commission seized 77 cases of Seneca brand cigarettes Wednesday, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in Tulsa County District Court.
The cigarettes were headed to Riverside Smokeshop in Tulsa and had a value of $103,000 once sold to the public, said Paula Ross, a Tax Commission spokeswoman.
Karen Goodson, the manager of Riverside Smokeshop, said the seizure should ot have occurred.
"It is a sovereignty issue that needs to be decided by the court once and for all," Goodson said.
In January, the Creek Nation temporarily suspended distribution of Seneca brand cigarettes through its wholesale company in Okmulgee pending the outcome of an injunction filed in U.S. Eastern District Court in Muskogee, records show. The suspension also includes King Mountain cigarettes manufactured in Washington state by a tribal entity. Seneca is manufactured in Canada, also by a tribal entity.
The cigarette seizure is part of the state's ongoing pressure to force the Creek Nation to sign a tobacco compact or face further confiscation of unapproved cigarettes, records show. The conflict began in 2005 when the Creek Nation opted out of renewing its compact because of alleged unfair negotiation practices by the state.
Meanwhile, the Indian-based company that sold the cigarettes to the Riverside store said the cigarettes were sold with the knowledge of the Creek Nation.
"It is my hunch that the smokeshop was acting under the licensure of the tribe and with full knowledge of the tribe," said Lance Morgan, CEO of HCI Distribution, an economic development corporation of the Winnebago Tribe in Nebraska.
Morgan said that the Muscogee Creek nation had a temporary license with HCI, which expired Friday.
Creek Nation spokesman Thompson Gouge said the tribe could not comment on the cigarette seizure or the tribe's suspension on stockpiling Seneca or similar cigarettes.
Tax commission officials contend that Seneca and King Mountain cigarettes are contraband smokes not listed on the state's approved list of cigarette brands sold in Oklahoma. The cigarettes are competing heavily with other discount brands and allegedly bleeding off millions of dollars of tax revenues intended for health initiatives and smoking-cessation programs. The cigarettes are being sold by Creek-affiliated stores without an Oklahoma tax stamp.
Tribal officials contend that they can provide such cigarettes without paying taxes to Oklahoma because the cigarettes are tribal-to-tribal sales that are exempt from state taxation.
Four weeks after the tribe temporarily suspended stocking the cigarettes for its affiliated stores, the World purchased packs of Seneca at three Creek-affiliated stores in Sapulpa, Glenpool and Tulsa. King Mountain cigarettes were not available.
King Mountain officials said they could not comment on the absence of their cigarettes in the Tulsa area.
Two additional stores visited by the World did not sell the cigarettes. In the past, most of the Creek-affiliated stores within the Tulsa area have refused to sell the cigarettes, saying they are "illegal" when asked why they don't sell them.
Meanwhile, area smokeshops appear to be fully complying with a new state law that requires retailers to sell cigarettes that inhibit accidental fires.
Of the cigarettes recently purchased by the World, all of the packs, including contraband brands, had fire-safe paper. The paper involves tiny bands within the paper that act like speed bumps while the cigarette is burning.
Records by the Tulsa Fire Department reveal that cigarettes were the No. 1 heat source for fatality fires in Tulsa during the past seven years.
Between 2001 and 2008, 59 people lost their lives to fires caused by cigarettes or smoking material.
Capt. Jeff Vandolah of the Tulsa Fire Department said it is too early to determine if fire-safe paper is decreasing the number of accidental fires.
The new state law requires cigarettes to be sold with "fire-safe" cigarette paper, which allows the cigarette to extinguish itself if it is left unattended.
The law took effect Jan. 1, 2009, but to delay the law's effect, several area smoke shops reportedly were selling old inventory bought before the law took effect and were allowed to sell old inventory until Jan. 1, 2010.
In October, 10 months after the law took effect, the World bought several packs of discount-brand cigarettes without fire-safe paper at smoke shops. The tribal stores stated the stock was old stock bought before the law took effect.
пятница, 12 февраля 2010 г.
Anti-smoking group says cigarette tax hike would ease state budget woes
A bigger tax on cigarettes could be the answer to South Dakota's budget shortfall, according to a new report.
Released by a coalition of public health organizations, including the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the report suggests that by raising the cigarette tax by $1 per pack, South Dakota would collect $15.4 million more annually, while at the same time prompting more smokers to quit.
"This report shows that raising tobacco taxes is truly a win-win-win for South Dakota ...," said Matthew L. Meyers, president of Tobacco-Free Kids.
But John Boyd, owner of the Deadwood Tobacco Company in Deadwood, isn't buying the new report.
"Anything times zero is zero," he said.
Boyd said the argument that an increased tax can both raise money for the state and reduce the number of smokers is nonsensical.
"If you reduce the number of smokers, where do you get your money," he said. "If that's your intent to reduce smoking, then you're not getting the taxes."
About 20 percent of South Dakotans smoke, including 24.7 percent of the state's high school students, according to the South Dakota Department of Health. South Dakota's current cigarette tax is $1.53 per pack. The national average is $1.34.
The new report details both the revenue and health benefits of a $1 a pack tax increase, by state.
In South Dakota, the increase would save $145 million in health care costs and save 2,900 residents from premature smoking-related deaths. It would prevent 6,000 kids from becoming smokers and encourage 3,100 adult smokers to give up the habit, according to the report.
A national poll released along with the report found that 67 percent of voters support a $1 tobacco tax over other options, such as an income tax, gasoline or sales tax increase.
Boyd said a national survey doesn't give a fair look at the state.
"If it's a nationwide study; nationwide doesn't have anything to do with South Dakota," he said. "It's a skewed survey."
Boyd believes that another increase in cigarette taxes will only push people to buy their cigarettes in bordering states or online. Either way, it will mean less revenue for the state.
"If they think that it's going to make people quit; then they're going to lose revenue shares," Boyd said. "South Dakota will lose huge revenues."
Released by a coalition of public health organizations, including the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the report suggests that by raising the cigarette tax by $1 per pack, South Dakota would collect $15.4 million more annually, while at the same time prompting more smokers to quit.
"This report shows that raising tobacco taxes is truly a win-win-win for South Dakota ...," said Matthew L. Meyers, president of Tobacco-Free Kids.
But John Boyd, owner of the Deadwood Tobacco Company in Deadwood, isn't buying the new report.
"Anything times zero is zero," he said.
Boyd said the argument that an increased tax can both raise money for the state and reduce the number of smokers is nonsensical.
"If you reduce the number of smokers, where do you get your money," he said. "If that's your intent to reduce smoking, then you're not getting the taxes."
About 20 percent of South Dakotans smoke, including 24.7 percent of the state's high school students, according to the South Dakota Department of Health. South Dakota's current cigarette tax is $1.53 per pack. The national average is $1.34.
The new report details both the revenue and health benefits of a $1 a pack tax increase, by state.
In South Dakota, the increase would save $145 million in health care costs and save 2,900 residents from premature smoking-related deaths. It would prevent 6,000 kids from becoming smokers and encourage 3,100 adult smokers to give up the habit, according to the report.
A national poll released along with the report found that 67 percent of voters support a $1 tobacco tax over other options, such as an income tax, gasoline or sales tax increase.
Boyd said a national survey doesn't give a fair look at the state.
"If it's a nationwide study; nationwide doesn't have anything to do with South Dakota," he said. "It's a skewed survey."
Boyd believes that another increase in cigarette taxes will only push people to buy their cigarettes in bordering states or online. Either way, it will mean less revenue for the state.
"If they think that it's going to make people quit; then they're going to lose revenue shares," Boyd said. "South Dakota will lose huge revenues."
понедельник, 8 февраля 2010 г.
E Cigarette Exchange Program Offered To London, UK Users
London, UK smokers who have already switched to the highly popular alternative smoking device called an e cigarette now have the opportunity to exchange thier old device for a Green Smoke. "We're excited to offer this unique exchange program to all the traditional smokers out there who have already made the switch from tobacco cigarettes to this smarter alternative." states Jeff Smith, affilate for Greensmoke. "It gives the opportunity for these smokers to try our Greensmoke e cigarette products at a discount price."
The offer gives users of the device an incentive to try Greensmoke brand e cigarettes. Throughout the UK, users from Plymouth, Bournemouth and Bristol all the way up to Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow can simply send in their current brand e cigarette for a £30 coupon that can be used torward a starter kit or any product they sell. "There may be many users out there who are not happy with their current brand for what ever reason. We feel our Greensmoke product is the best on the market today and this program is a great way to prove it. What better way to prove than with current users of the popular device" says Jeff.
Electronic cigarettes are a revolutionary new nicotine delivery device that provides a smarter alternative to traditional cigarette smoking. With traditional cigarettes, the smoker is forced to inhale thousands of unwanted chemicals (over 3900) and carcinogens along with the nicotine. With e cigarettes, this is a thing of the past!
The offer gives users of the device an incentive to try Greensmoke brand e cigarettes. Throughout the UK, users from Plymouth, Bournemouth and Bristol all the way up to Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow can simply send in their current brand e cigarette for a £30 coupon that can be used torward a starter kit or any product they sell. "There may be many users out there who are not happy with their current brand for what ever reason. We feel our Greensmoke product is the best on the market today and this program is a great way to prove it. What better way to prove than with current users of the popular device" says Jeff.
Electronic cigarettes are a revolutionary new nicotine delivery device that provides a smarter alternative to traditional cigarette smoking. With traditional cigarettes, the smoker is forced to inhale thousands of unwanted chemicals (over 3900) and carcinogens along with the nicotine. With e cigarettes, this is a thing of the past!
четверг, 4 февраля 2010 г.
Man loses teeth after cigarette explodes
An Indonesian man has been given compensation after a cigarette he was smoking exploded taking out six of his teeth.
The 31-year-old man says the http://www.cigarettespub.net/marlboro/gold-edge blew up in his mouth while he was riding a motorcycle.
The man received a payment of a little more than $500 and all his medical costs are being covered by the makers of the cigarettes he was smoking.
Police are investigating the incident and the man says he plans on quitting smoking.
The cigarette company says they have no plans to recall and said it was the first time this has happened and called it a "weird case."
The 31-year-old man says the http://www.cigarettespub.net/marlboro/gold-edge blew up in his mouth while he was riding a motorcycle.
The man received a payment of a little more than $500 and all his medical costs are being covered by the makers of the cigarettes he was smoking.
Police are investigating the incident and the man says he plans on quitting smoking.
The cigarette company says they have no plans to recall and said it was the first time this has happened and called it a "weird case."
среда, 3 февраля 2010 г.
Spending a Week With an Electric Cigarette
The great Mark Twain once wrote, “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.” It’s the perfect summation of the eternal struggle between a smoker and his cigarette, at once a loyal friend and two-faced bastard. But an even greater struggle that smokers face is against themselves. Do they smoke because they can’t not, or because they don’t feel like stopping? Anti-smoking products—nicotine gum, patches, nasal spray—are known as Nicotine Replacement Therapy, and have had varying degrees of success. They’re designed to quench your body’s thirst for nicotine, but what they can’t replicate is the pleasure of heading out for a smoke break with your coworkers, or sparking up after a stressful job interview. The physicality of smoking—the holding of the cigarette, the puffing in and blowing out of smoke—is half of the appeal. This means that the most effective form of NRT would be a device that could satisfy a smoker’s nic-fits, while still allowing him to look as debonair as Humphrey Bogart circa 1946. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the e-cigarette.
Several weeks ago one of our interns was puffing away at what looked like a cigarette right here in the office. When he took a haul, the cherry glowed. When he exhaled, a plume of scentless smoke whisped out. He told us it was an electronic cigarette, and what he was blowing out was “nicotine vapors.” Like a child seeing their first Yo Gabba Gabba! episode, we were transfixed. Did this device—that looked and behaved just like a cigarette—feel like one too? Was this the smoking gun (pun intended) that self-hating smokers were looking for? What if you could quit smoking without really quitting smoking? We had to get our stained-yellow hands on one and find out for ourselves. So that’s exactly what we did
After the e-cigarette’s manufacturer—Green Smoke—agreed to send us a $139 Starter Kit, we did a little research and found out that these cyborg smokes weren’t exactly new to the market. The Times explored their yays (zero carcinogens! You can smoke in bars!) and nays (It’s the stuff they use in smoke machines!) back in June of last year. While The Wall Street Journal wrote on the controversy surrounding them (the FDA has yet to approve). The articles both featured testaments from heavy smokers who, thanks to their e-cigarettes, were able to cut smoking out of their lives significantly, if not totally. Leave it to federal rulers and regulators to leave a dark cloud of smoke (pun intended again) over what should be a very positive thing. Detractors claim the different cartridge flavors—chocolate, strawberry, apple—make them attractive to kids. Also, although you’re mostly inhaling a vaporized version of nicotine and water, the concoction includes something called Propylene glycol, a compound used in deodorant, hand sanitizers, and anti-freeze. The jury is still out on whether this is a viable alternative to quitting, or a less but still sketchy quick fix. For the last two weeks, there was not an hour I spent without my e-cigarette, and the experience kind of freaked me out.
Several weeks ago one of our interns was puffing away at what looked like a cigarette right here in the office. When he took a haul, the cherry glowed. When he exhaled, a plume of scentless smoke whisped out. He told us it was an electronic cigarette, and what he was blowing out was “nicotine vapors.” Like a child seeing their first Yo Gabba Gabba! episode, we were transfixed. Did this device—that looked and behaved just like a cigarette—feel like one too? Was this the smoking gun (pun intended) that self-hating smokers were looking for? What if you could quit smoking without really quitting smoking? We had to get our stained-yellow hands on one and find out for ourselves. So that’s exactly what we did
After the e-cigarette’s manufacturer—Green Smoke—agreed to send us a $139 Starter Kit, we did a little research and found out that these cyborg smokes weren’t exactly new to the market. The Times explored their yays (zero carcinogens! You can smoke in bars!) and nays (It’s the stuff they use in smoke machines!) back in June of last year. While The Wall Street Journal wrote on the controversy surrounding them (the FDA has yet to approve). The articles both featured testaments from heavy smokers who, thanks to their e-cigarettes, were able to cut smoking out of their lives significantly, if not totally. Leave it to federal rulers and regulators to leave a dark cloud of smoke (pun intended again) over what should be a very positive thing. Detractors claim the different cartridge flavors—chocolate, strawberry, apple—make them attractive to kids. Also, although you’re mostly inhaling a vaporized version of nicotine and water, the concoction includes something called Propylene glycol, a compound used in deodorant, hand sanitizers, and anti-freeze. The jury is still out on whether this is a viable alternative to quitting, or a less but still sketchy quick fix. For the last two weeks, there was not an hour I spent without my e-cigarette, and the experience kind of freaked me out.
понедельник, 1 февраля 2010 г.
Smoking ban could be extended to cover office doorways
Andy Burnham, the health secretary, will review the current law to see if it should be strengthened to include areas where smokers have gathered since the 2007 ban.
Plain packaging for cigarettes and a complete ban on cigarette vending machines could also be introduced.Mr Burnham said he wants to halve the number of smokers in England from one fifth (21%) of the population to one in 10 by 2020.
The target requires around four million of England's estimated eight million smokers to quit.
An extension of the ban – which currently covers enclosed spaces – to include open-air but busy areas such as office doorways and pub gardens, would also reduce passive smoking, Department of Health (DH) officials believe.
However, Simon Clark, director of the smokers' lobby group Forest, said further legislation would “further erode our ability to choose how we wish to live our lives".
The number of smokers has fallen by a quarter in the past decade, but an estimated 200,000 young people start smoking every year.
In 2007 more than 80,000 deaths and 1.4 million hospital admissions were attributed to smoking and the Department of Health said the habit costs the NHS £2.7 billion a year.
Mr Burnham said: "Most smokers start before they are 18, so we have to discourage children and young people from ever starting.
"Now that we've banned advertising and will soon see an end to attractive displays in shops, the only remaining method of advertising tobacco is the packaging. So we will carefully consider whether there is evidence for making tobacco companies use plain packets.
"We will always help people to quit, and smokers should never stop trying. That's the beauty of the NHS – it's there to help everyone.
"One day, in the not too distant future, we'll look back and find it hard to remember why anyone ever smoked in the first place."
His review, which will begin in July to coincide with the third anniversary of the ban in England, will consider spaces outside buildings.
In addition to the entrances to office blocks, many of which are now a frequent haunt of smokers, he will look at the effects of smoking areas outside pubs, bars and nightclubs as well as bus shelters.
Mr Clark, of Forest, said the government had already introduced "some of the most draconian antismoking laws in the world", adding: "In an allegedly free society, this is nothing to be proud of."
He said: "The current smoking ban, which has had a devastating impact on community pubs and clubs, is out of all proportion to the harm allegedly caused by second-hand smoke. Further restrictions will only accelerate that trend."
"The Health Secretary says he wants to crack down on cheap illicit cigarettes, but at the same time the government says it will consider increases in tobacco duty.
"Don't they understand that one of the reasons Britain has such a problem with illicit cigarettes is because this government has increased tobacco taxation to record levels and that has encouraged criminal gangs and individuals to smuggle millions of cheap cigarettes into the country?"
More than 80,000 deaths are attributed to smoking ever year, costing the NHS £2.7 billion a year.
Plain packaging for cigarettes and a complete ban on cigarette vending machines could also be introduced.Mr Burnham said he wants to halve the number of smokers in England from one fifth (21%) of the population to one in 10 by 2020.
The target requires around four million of England's estimated eight million smokers to quit.
An extension of the ban – which currently covers enclosed spaces – to include open-air but busy areas such as office doorways and pub gardens, would also reduce passive smoking, Department of Health (DH) officials believe.
However, Simon Clark, director of the smokers' lobby group Forest, said further legislation would “further erode our ability to choose how we wish to live our lives".
The number of smokers has fallen by a quarter in the past decade, but an estimated 200,000 young people start smoking every year.
In 2007 more than 80,000 deaths and 1.4 million hospital admissions were attributed to smoking and the Department of Health said the habit costs the NHS £2.7 billion a year.
Mr Burnham said: "Most smokers start before they are 18, so we have to discourage children and young people from ever starting.
"Now that we've banned advertising and will soon see an end to attractive displays in shops, the only remaining method of advertising tobacco is the packaging. So we will carefully consider whether there is evidence for making tobacco companies use plain packets.
"We will always help people to quit, and smokers should never stop trying. That's the beauty of the NHS – it's there to help everyone.
"One day, in the not too distant future, we'll look back and find it hard to remember why anyone ever smoked in the first place."
His review, which will begin in July to coincide with the third anniversary of the ban in England, will consider spaces outside buildings.
In addition to the entrances to office blocks, many of which are now a frequent haunt of smokers, he will look at the effects of smoking areas outside pubs, bars and nightclubs as well as bus shelters.
Mr Clark, of Forest, said the government had already introduced "some of the most draconian antismoking laws in the world", adding: "In an allegedly free society, this is nothing to be proud of."
He said: "The current smoking ban, which has had a devastating impact on community pubs and clubs, is out of all proportion to the harm allegedly caused by second-hand smoke. Further restrictions will only accelerate that trend."
"The Health Secretary says he wants to crack down on cheap illicit cigarettes, but at the same time the government says it will consider increases in tobacco duty.
"Don't they understand that one of the reasons Britain has such a problem with illicit cigarettes is because this government has increased tobacco taxation to record levels and that has encouraged criminal gangs and individuals to smuggle millions of cheap cigarettes into the country?"
More than 80,000 deaths are attributed to smoking ever year, costing the NHS £2.7 billion a year.
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