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Showing posts with label tax. Show all posts

Spanish tobacco sales drop 25% since huge tobacco tax increase in Dec 2010.

Spain raised it's tobacco tax by 28% in Dec 2010 and now sales are down by 25%
lt makes you wonder if anyone in government have any commonsense at all. This drop in tobacco sales was fully expected and foreseen by anyone with more than half a braincell.

They've also made Spain a market for smugglers now! Smoking rates haven't gone down, just the sales of legitimate tobacco. One really has to wonder if governments are involved in smuggling ... after all, they do everything a smuggler could ever wish for!

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