BAT calls for review of tobacco taxes
Thursday, June 05, 2014
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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