The second was that they legalized 95% of the less harmful alternatives to combustible tobacco products and substantially reduced the attendant taxes on these alternative products...
According to him, funding for tobacco control must come majorly from taxation and there is also a need for relevant stakeholders to apply tax measures rightly...
“As a result of this, the Commission adopted a directive harmonizing excise duties on tobacco products that set out a minimum excise duty rate of 50%....