BAT calls for review of tobacco taxes

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British American Tobacco (BAT) Botswana has asked the government to reconsider the increased taxes on tobacco products. Last week BAT Botswana stated that an increase in taxes on tobacco products would result in decreased consumption.

The company said instead smokers may continue to look for cheaper and often illicit products. 

“What’s more is that the call for increased taxation on tobacco products is being made from within a context of already high tobacco taxes across Southern Africa, and an economic environment in which the disposable income of consumer’s remains stretched,” read the statement from the company.

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