Macao's Health Bureau is to propose a 10-fold increase of tobacco tax in an effort to advance smoking control.
Chan Tan Mui, director of the bureau's Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Unit, was quoted as saying that the tobacco tax hike will involve the amendment of the existing tobacco control law.
The current tobacco tax rate stands at 0.50 pataca (US$ 0.0625) for each pack.
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