Indonesia finance minister defends plan to raise cigarette prices

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Indonesia's finance minister defended on Monday a plan to raise cigarette prices by more than a third from next year to reduce smoking rates, ...

to reduce smoking rates, after some in the tobacco industry said it would encourage illegal manufacturing and threaten jobs.

Nearly 70 per cent of adult men smoke in Indonesia, according to the World Health Organization - one of the highest rates in the world - and tobacco kills 225,720 people each year in the country, or 14.7 per cent of all deaths, mostly through cardiovascular diseases, the WHO said in a 2018 report.The Indonesian government has been raising taxes on tobacco products almost every year since 2014, but that has not had a significant impact on smoking rates.

Philip Morris-controlled HM Sampoerna, one of Indonesia's biggest cigarette company, said they had received no warning for the increase.

 

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