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Illicit tobacco trade: Taxation and illicit trade
WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
17 Oct 2018
This fact sheet shows that the tobacco industry has claimed that high taxes drive smuggling and has sometimes argued successfully to governments that they should not increase tobacco tax because this will increase the level of smuggling.
