Anti-tobacco groups sceptical about budget
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“But the benefits that cigarette companies have been enjoying remained unchanged, and there was no words on smokeless tobacco,” economist Abul Barkat said at a press briefing on Friday.
Though increased taxes have been proposed on bidis, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids’ (CTFK) Bangladesh coordinator Taifur Rahman still remained ‘sceptical’.
“It now depends on the Parliamentarians how they speak in the parliament before the final budget,” he said at the press briefing.
“The current government in its first budget 2009-10 proposed a slight increase on bidis, but in the final budget it was revised as MPs spoke against it,” he said.
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