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cigarette-prices

Business 5 years ago

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Time to quit?: Tobacco excise hike, weak purchasing power to hit cigarette makers

The government will increase cigarette excise taxes by an average of 12.5 percent in February of next year.

Business 5 years ago

Consumers prefer cheaper cigarettes as purchasing power weakens: Sampoerna

The shift to affordability has also been evident with the market share of smaller pack products – 10 or 12 cigarettes per pack – increasing 5 percentage points year-on-year (yoy) to 44.4 percent in this year’s first half.

Opinion 6 years ago

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Strengthen govt support to help smokers quit

Reducing the prevalence of smoking is far from easy. Using excise taxes to reduce smoking rates is the go-to weapon with high expectations. However, it has not provided encouraging results, especially in Indonesia’s case.

Opinion 6 years ago

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Tobacco excise increase: Catching up with smokers

In March 2019, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) showed that households below the poverty line in cities spent 12.2 percent of their total expenditure on cigarettes, more than their spending on protein such as eggs and chicken, which was below 5 percent.

Editorial 6 years ago

Smoking kills and funds

With Indonesia’s smoking culture and large exposure to cigarettes, price increases might do little to reduce cigarette consumption and smoking prevalence in the short term.

Business 6 years ago

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Cigarette prices to jump 35 percent as government hikes excise

The move marked the government’s reversal of its decision to leave the cigarette excise unchanged in 2019 — the first time since Jokowi assumed office in 2014.

National 7 years ago

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Tobacco threatens youth: Ministers

Price of popular cigarette brands in Indonesia stood at US$1.49 on average, much cheaper than Singapore ($9.62), Brunei Darussalam ($5.10), Malaysia ($4.17) and Thailand ($3.28).

Editorial 7 years ago

Smoking rots young brains

Health Ministry discovered an 8.8 percent increase in the number of young smokers aged 10 to 18.

Opinion 8 years ago

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The new era of cigarette excise tariff

The government has decided to impose a 57 percent excise tariff on tobacco liquids used in ecigarettes and vaporizers, which have been quite popular in Indonesia.

Editorial 8 years ago

EDITORIAL: The truth about tobacco

Indonesia under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s leadership intends to continue its dependence on tobacco as a leading source of revenue.

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cigarette-prices

PREMIUM Time to quit?: Tobacco excise hike, weak purchasing power to hit cigarette makers

Consumers prefer cheaper cigarettes as purchasing power weakens: Sampoerna

PREMIUM Strengthen govt support to help smokers quit

PREMIUM Tobacco excise increase: Catching up with smokers

Smoking kills and funds

PREMIUM Cigarette prices to jump 35 percent as government hikes excise

PREMIUM Tobacco threatens youth: Ministers