Daily Clove Cigarettes News Update
??ON APRIL 1st America’s government announced a big increase in taxes on cigarettes. Federal taxes leapt from 39 cents to .01 a packet. American smokers also pay state taxes ranging from 17 cents in Missouri to a whopping .75 in New York. Anti-smoking campaigners argue that higher taxes encourage smokers to quit and deter others [...]
AUSTRALIA’S world MotoGP champion and Young Australian of the Year, Casey Stoner, is being named and shamed in an aggressive campaign by anti-smoking groups which have labelled him as a “high-speed drug pusher.”
They said images of the 22-year-old non-smoker and his bike covered in logos of Marlboro cigarettes while racing and in the media are [...]
The government may leave unchanged excise duty for cigarettes and tobacco next year to protect the cigarette industry’s employment rate amid sluggish growth in other labor-intensive sectors.
“We expect to count on more excise revenue from an increase in cigarette sales. We forecast the sales will be higher next year,” the Finance Ministry’s Director General of [...]
PT Gudang Garam’s second quarter profit jumped 81 percent after Indonesia’s second-biggest cigarette maker enticed customers with new brands.
Net income rose to 555.2 billion rupiah ( million) in the three months ended June, the highest quarterly profit in three years, from 306.3 billion rupiah a year earlier. Sales rose 17.5 percent to 8.14 trillion. The [...]
U.S. singing star Alicia Keys has set a positive example that should be followed by musicians and entertainers worldwide by demanding the withdrawal of tobacco industry sponsorship of her July 31 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia. We applaud Ms. Keys for taking quick action to disassociate herself from the tobacco industry and to prevent her name, [...]
PT Gudang Garam, Indonesia’s second- largest cigarette maker, surged the most in more than nine years on speculation the company may be sold after its chairman died.
Gudang Garam jumped 19 percent to close at 6,200 rupiah in Jakarta, the biggest gain since Nov. 5, 1998. Rachman Halim, the company’s chairman, died at Mount Elizabeth Hospital [...]
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