Does smuggling negate the impact of a tobacco tax increase?
@article{Tsui2015DoesSN,
title={Does smuggling negate the impact of a tobacco tax increase?},
author={Tat Chee Tsui},
journal={Tobacco Control},
year={2015},
volume={25},
pages={361 - 362},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:32615470}
}Hong Kong is an ideal place to test the impact of increasing cigarette duties on smuggling as it does not have any domestic tobacco manufacturing and there are few exemptions for duty on cigarettes.
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