Illegal cigarette trade grown significantly in India : TII - Jammu Kashmir Latest News | Tourism
Hyderabad, June 4: Illegal cigarette trade in India has grown significantly and declined in legal cigarettes due to high cigarette taxation and extreme tobacco control regulations such as the 85 per cent Pictorial warning on Tobacco product packs in the country. Illegal cigarettes have reached an annual volume of more than 28 billion sticks in 2020, accounting for 1/3rd of the Indian legal cigarette market, making India the 4th largest illicit cigarette market in the world, according to the Tobacco […]