koreaherald.com – 12 de septiembre de 2014 – Korea

Korea to raise tobacco prices by 80 percent

Korean smokers are likely to have to pay nearly twice as much for a pack of cigarettes, which currently costs 2,500 won on average, starting next year.

The government announced on Thursday that it would push to raise tobacco prices by 80 percent by January as part of its measures to decrease the country’s high smoking rate among adult males to 29 percent by 2020.

“We will seek to raise tobacco prices by 2,000 won ($1.95) per pack and will also try to introduce a pricing system where cigarette prices will be in tandem with the nation’s inflationary pressure,” Health Minister Moon Hyung-pyo said in a statement.

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qz.com - 3 de octubre de 2013 - Corea

Hyundai is killing off the stubbornly persistent cigarette lighter socket

Hyundai Motor has made an “unprecedented decision” among global automotive makers, the Korea Herald reported today—it is eliminating the “cigarette lighter jack” from all its vehicles sold in Korea and replacing it with a USB power point.

The next step, the paper reported, may be to make this replacement in all the cars it sells globally. Charging a smartphone with the newly-attached USB charger would take one hour, Hyundai said, “seven times faster than when using a separate portable charger.”

Tobacco accessories have been slow to disappear from autos; back in 1994, Chrysler “made a splash” by introducing the first cars without ashtrays since the 1930s. Now, if Hyundai’s substitution catches on (and tech writers like David Pogue have been begging for it for years) it may be the beginning of the end for the ubiquitous car cigarette lighter socket.

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