The scent of tobacco still wafts through Britain’s streets. It’s not just a whiff of rebellion against the nanny state – it’s ...

THE cost of a pack of cigarettes will not rise after the Spring Statement, it was confirmed today. Smokers won’t have to pay more for cigs as the Chancellor did not announce plans to hike ...

Philip Morris Companies Inc. , the world's largest tobacco company, will raise U.S. cigarette prices to distributors by 6 cents per pack on all of its brands effective Monday, a spokesman confirmed ...

The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) and the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) have urged the ...

Initially, a 25% reduction in the FED rate directly translates to a 25% decrease in tax revenue per pack of cigarettes sold ... a 6% increase in the consumption of economy brands and a 14.25% increase ...

Tobacco excise collections have collapsed to their lowest level in 14 years as smokers turn ... pushing the cost of a 25-pack of cigarettes to about $50 – $34 of which goes to the government.

If the price of a pack of cigarettes was still around $25 ... Instead of collecting over $14 billion in excise in 2026-27, we now expect about $6.8 billion. That’s a fall of $7.85 billion.

James Edward Smith asked for a lump of dirt, but his request was denied. He settled for a cup of yogurt instead.

UNION CITY — Police accuse a borough man of being the person in an orange ski mask who used a gun to rob a Pizza Hut in ...

As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the beverages, alcohol, and ...

we need to examine Pakistan’s distinctive two-tier tax system for cigarettes. This system differentiates between ‘economy’ brands, taxed at a lower rate (PKR 101 per pack of 20), and ...