Tobacco taxes decoded: FAQs explain machine-based excise on chewing tobacco, gutkha

Under the new framework, excise duty will no longer depend on actual production or self-declared output. Duty will be levied on a deemed quantity of production linked to the maximum capacity of the ...
Business Recorder

Unregistered unit making counterfeit cigarettes raided

The Directo-rate-General Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue (IR) has raided an unregistered cigarette manufacturing unit involved in making counterfeit products at Sargodha and seized ...
The Denver Post

With cigarette makers’ new packaging, color tobacco opponents skeptical

RICHMOND, Va. — Goodbye, Marlboro Lights. Hello, Marlboro Gold Pack. “Light” cigarettes are going up in smoke by the end of June, but their names and packaging are getting a colorful makeover. The ...
Los Angeles Times

Cigarette machines are now packing art

PHILADELPHIA — Pull a knob on the vintage cigarette machine and you may pick up a new habit -- buying art. The Art-o-Mat offers miniature paintings, sculpture and other tiny trinkets for not much more ...