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Why high prices, jail, fines won’t deter smokers

Why high prices, jail, fines won’t deter smokers.

The government is to hit smokers with a steep price hike to the disappointment of protesting manufacturers but a victory for civil society.

In renewed war on tobacco, both local manufacturers and civil society have strongly lobbied the government over price increases contained in the Finance Bill 2019.

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