Smokers and Taxation: Some Things Will Never Change
For years, smokers groups have complained about one thing in their singular voice: the continued raid on cigarette duty by successive governments, which has almost doubled the cost of a packet of cigarettes over the past 20 years. With every new budget that is announced, a few cents or pennies are customarily added on to the already well-burdened smoker, and the smokers rights groups protest again. In reality, governments have nothing to fear from taxing cigarettes at astronomically high levels. Smoking is bad for health; the health […]
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