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30 tobaccoasia / Issue 3, 2016 July / August Staff Report Report: Global Cigarette Prices Overview Country US$ AUSTRALASIA Australia 17.40 (2014) New Zealand 14.80 (2014) MELANESIA Fiji 5.10 (2012) New Caledonia (France) 9.40 (2012) Papa New Guinea 4.90 (2014) Vanuatu 10.00 (2012) MICRONESIA Federal states of Micronesia 3.30 (2012) Guam (US) 6.40 (2012) Marshall Islands 3.00 (2010) POLYNESIA French Polynesia (France) 9.70 (2011) Hawaii (US) 9.00 (2012) Cigarette prices in Oceania* Country US$ CENTRAL ASIA Kazakhstan 1.10 (2013) Kyrgyzstan 1.00 (2013) Tajikistan 2.50 (2013) Turkmenistan 5.70 (2013) Uzbekistan 1.20 (2014) EASTERN ASIA CHINA Jilin 2.40 (2013) Hunan 2.00 (2013) Sichuan 1.80 (2013) Guangdong 2.90 (2012) Heilongjiang 1.30 (2013) Jiangxi 2.30 (2013) Liaoning 1.60 (2012) Shaanxi 2.40 (2013) Hong Kong 6.40 (2013) Japan 5.30 (2014) Macao 3.60 (2013) Mongolia 1.20 (2014) South Korea 2.20 (2014) Taiwan 2.90 (2013) NORTHERN ASIA Russia 1.70 (2014) SOUTHEASTERN ASIA Brunei 6.10 (2013) Burma 2.00 (2012) Cambodia 1.00 (2014) Indonesia 1.40 (2014) Laos 1.40 (2014) Malaysia 3.30 (2014) Myanmar 2.00 (2013) Philippines 1.00 (2013) Singapore 9.70 (2013) Thailand 2.60 (2014) Timor-Leste 1.00 (2014) Vietnam 1.70 (2014) Cigarette prices in Asia* Country US$ SOUTHERN ASIA Afghanistan 4.40 (2012) Bangladesh 1.70 (2014) INDIA Andra Pradesh 1.80 (2013) Dehli 2.00 (2013) Goa 1.50 (2013) Karnatahe 1.80 (2013) Maharashtra 1.80 (2013) Rajasthan 1.40 (2013) Tamil Nadu 1.80 (2013) West Bengal 2.00 (2013) Maldives 2.6 (2013) Nepal 1.2 (2014) Pakistan 1.2 (2014) Sri Lanka 3.6 (2014) WESTERN ASIA Armenia 1.90 (2014) Azerbaijan 1.90 (2014) Bahrain 2.10 (2013) Cyprus 6.00 (2014) Georgia 1.80 (2013) Iran 2.00 (2014) Iraq 1.80 (2013) Israel 5.30 (2014) Jordan 2.40 (2014) Kuwait 2.10 (2013) Lebanon 1.50 (2014) Oman 1.70 (2014) Palestine 5.80 (2013) Qatar 2.50 (2013) Saudi Arabia 1.60 (2014) Syria 2.40 (2014) Turkey 4.40 (2014) United Arab Emirates 1.90 (2014) Yemen 1.50 (2013) Cigarette retail prices have been an indi- cator used to compare the cost of living in different countries around the world. They have also been used as an anti- smoking tool by governments, who in- crease excise and sales taxes on cigarettes and tobacco, thus increasing the cigarette prices, hoping that the higher prices will lower the number of smokers or even de- ter people from starting to smoke. And, of course, higher taxes mean more rev- enue for the government. Tobacco excise taxes often exceed half of the retail price. Looking at the percentage of excise in the cost of ciga- rettes, Cuba leads the pack with 87.1%, followed by the UK with 73.5%, and Australia at 54.7%. Increased taxation on tobacco is cer- tainly not a new occurrence, but it would seem that the number of countries which are going down that route has been steadily increasing. Higher tobacco taxes have been imposed in all corners of the world. In 2013 the Australian govern- ment announced that it would proceed with the implementation of four 12.5% tobacco excise increases, starting on December 2013, followed by September 2014, September 2015, and September 2016. In January this year, Indonesia, one of the countries with the highest number of smokers, raised its tobacco excise taxes by an average of 11%; with the highest increase of 12.96-16.47% lev- ied on machine-rolled cigarettes and the lowest increase of 0-12% on hand-rolled cigarettes.

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