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Longer The Cigarette, Higher The Tax Burden According to the governments notification, short, non-filter cigarettes of up to 65 mm will attract an additional excise duty of about Rs 2.05 per stick

This is especially true for young and low income smokers

Europe tops global smoking rates, Balkan countries lead with double the figures of Western Europe Europe has the highest smoking rate in the world, with an average of 25.9 percent of people over the age of 15 using tobacco products, shows data published by the platform Brilliant Maps, based on the World Health Organizations global report on tobacco and nicotine use trends from 2000 to 2022, with projections extending to 2030

"Non-duty paid" or bootlegged cigarettes are UK brands usually brought into the country from abroad and sold illegally