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New Market Research Report: Smoking Tobacco in Latvia 

In Latvia, pipe tobacco and RYO tobacco are each consumed by smokers from different generations. Pipe tobacco is more traditional and is bought mainly by men aged 40 and above, so-called dedicated smokers who despise ordinary cigarettes and prefer higher-quality pipe tobacco. Nevertheless, pipes are sometimes also smoked by younger people, mainly out of curiosity as it is considered an unusual habit for a youngster. Amongst the latest developments in pipe tobacco in Latvia is the increasing...

Euromonitor International's Smoking Tobacco in Latvia report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2006-2010, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies,

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Saeima supports increasing excise tax on alcohol, gasoline and cigarettes in Latvia  

The tax rate will be raised from July 1 of this year, and is part of amendments to this year's budget, informs LETA. . . .

There will also be a gradual increase in the excise duty for cigarettes, so that by 2018 the excise duty reaches the European Union's minimum.

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• Smuggled goods from Russia and Belarus enter Lithuanian via Latvia 

Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius admitted that a lot of illegal goods come to Lithuania from Russia and Belarus via Latvia, The Lithuanian Tribune reports.

"Large quantity of smuggled cigarettes are shipped into Lithuania not through Belarus-Lithuania or Kaliningrad-Lithuania border but rather via Latvian borders where the goods are illegally shipped from Belarus and Russia," Andrius Kubilius emphasized.

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Felixstowe port officers size large cigarette haul 

Port officials in Suffolk have seized 150,000 cigarettes which smugglers were trying pass off as insulation material.

The eight boxes of cigarettes arrived at Felixstowe on Thursday and UK Border Agency officers were not convinced paperwork was authentic.

Jin Ling cigarettes, shipped from Latvia, were found hidden under a layer of stones at the top of each box.

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Research and Markets: Tobacco in Latvia 

The Tobacco in Latvia report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data (2002-2007), allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be the new legislative, distribution or pricing issues. Forecasts to 2012 illustrate how the market is set to change.

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British American Tobacco Latvia shuts down its production plant in Riga  

British American Tobacco Latvia is shutting down its production plant in Riga (Miera Street 58) at the end of September 2009, and releasing 223 employees. The main reasons – the high excise tax of recent years, which has significantly brought up prices for cigarettes and boosted the black market.

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Stricter limits on tobacco products crossing border into Latvia approved 

Latvian Saeima passed in the final reading amendments to the law on excise tax today, stipulating that from now on stricter limits will apply to the amount of tobacco products that private individuals from third countries can bring with them to Latvia; furthermore, persons will not be able to bring the allowed amount of tobacco products across the border of Latvia more often than one time per day.

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Baltic finance ministers imposed veto on EC suggestion to raise tobacco and fuel excises 

Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian finance ministers on Friday agreed to impose a veto on the suggestion of the European Commission to set higher excises on tobacco and fuel as of 2015 and to think about the euro adoption in 2011-2012.

At the meeting held in Trakai on Friday, Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Sadzius, Latvian Finance Minister Atis Slakters and Estonian Finance Minister Ivari Padar underlined that each country would have to decide itself on the excises amount, informs ELTA.

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Smoking at Work Might be Forbidden 

Euro Commissar regarding the social politics issue, Vladimir Shmidte suggests to enter the law to forbid smoking at working places across the EU countries. "We have to guarantee security of the working process, as smoking causes damages to the health" – he states.

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44% of Population for Penalties against Smokers 

44% of the Latvian population back the initiative of local doctors to ban smoking in children presence and introduce criminal responsibility for violators. 43% negatively reacted on the initiative, 7% said they did not care, and 6% had their own answers. Many respondents said there should be administrative penalties, say, fines.

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• Seimas Deputy Speaker of Lithuania roposed to display visual information of tobacco harm on tobacco products 

Seimas Deputy Speaker of Lithuania roposed to display visual information of tobacco harm on tobacco products

Seimas Deputy Speaker Alfredas Pekeliunas proposes to oblige producers of tobacco items to provide not only warning notes but also visual information on harmful effect of tobacco products on every pack of a tobacco product sold to customers, informs LETA.

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How Much Saeima Members Smoke 

Experts predict that a few years after smoking will become the cruelest killer destroying more people than any other disease. The biggest problem of smoking is refusal of smokers to admit that the habit brings them a lot of harm, TV5 said in "News Evening". However, there are many ways to assess the condition of the respiratory system.

Members of the Saeima had a chance to get familiar with one of them right in the legislative body on Wednesday, May 8. Interest of parliamentarians to the purity of their breath was so great that they had to stand in line. 80 people participated in the activity.

Non-smoker Aigars Kalvitis turned out to show the best results. But Jakov Pliner, Alexandr Golubev and Karlis Leiskalns, who smoke a box a day, found themselves on the opposite side of the rating.

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Sanctions for Smoking with Children Toughening 

Latvian doctors have recommended banning of smoking in the presence of children and bringing offenders to a criminal responsibility. The intention was revealed by President of the Latvian Society of Doctors Peteris Apinis in an interview with Radio Baltkom.

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Customs officers seize nearly €40,000 worth of cigarettes at Dublin Airport  

Customs Officers at Dublin Airport have smashed what's believed to be a major cigarette smuggling operation.

Over 100-thousand cigarettes, valued at almost €40,000, have been seized from passengers on a flight from Eastern Europe.

As part of an operation by Customs Officers, 112,000 cigarettes have been recovered from passengers on a flight from Riga in Latvia.

Revenue had identified a particular gang, which based in Latvia, smuggling cigarettes through Dublin Airport and distributing them for sale on the black market throughout the country.

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Nottinghamshire | Officers seize 121,000 cigarettes 

More than 120,000 cigarettes have been seized by customs officers from a gang of 13 people trying to smuggle them in via East Midlands Airport.

The cigarettes were seized as the group returned on a flight from Riga, Latvia, on Tuesday afternoon. Officers said the group was mostly from Derbyshire.

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