Step into a memory wrapped in velvet and smoke
It's somewhere in the middle
In last years budget, duty was increased by 80 HK cents a stick, pushing the price of a pack of 20 cigarettes up by HK$16 to more than HK$90, with tax accounting for HK$66
As of 2022, more than 1 in 10 middle and high school students (3.08 million), and 4.5% of the adults aged 18 years (11.1 million) reported currently using e-cigarettes in 2021 3,4
I tabled this amendment because I want to clean up the Solent and the beaches in my Gosport constituency
If you want to create a black market in a perfectly legal product, just make regulations and taxes so onerous that many people prefer to buy from illegal vendors to escape being hassled and mugged by the powers that be