Raising cigarette taxes to keep the price at a minimum of US$3.15 per packet can keep Chinese kids from smoking, according to a new survey. Photo: Reuters Raising cigarette taxes to keep the price at a minimum of US$3.15 per packet can keep Chinese kids from smoking, according to a new survey. Photo: Reuters
Raising cigarette taxes to keep the price at a minimum of US$3.15 per packet can keep Chinese kids from smoking, according to a new survey. Photo: Reuters
China /  People & Culture

Are cigarettes too affordable for China’s young people?

Raising the tax on a packet of smokes steadily to keep the price at US$3.15 can keep Chinese children from smoking, a survey showed

Topic |   Smoking and vaping
Zhuang Pinghui
Zhuang Pinghui

Updated: 1:55pm, 16 Apr, 2018

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Raising cigarette taxes to keep the price at a minimum of US$3.15 per packet can keep Chinese kids from smoking, according to a new survey. Photo: Reuters Raising cigarette taxes to keep the price at a minimum of US$3.15 per packet can keep Chinese kids from smoking, according to a new survey. Photo: Reuters
Raising cigarette taxes to keep the price at a minimum of US$3.15 per packet can keep Chinese kids from smoking, according to a new survey. Photo: Reuters
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