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Sudan's Soaring Cigarette Prices Snuff Out Smokers 

With the soaring cigarette sprices, an increasing number of Sudanese smokers are shifting towards the use of snuff and other tobacco alternatives.

While for a packet of 10 cigarettes a smoker used to pay no more than Sudanese 300 pounds in 1997, one now has to pay 1,000 pounds, the country's minimum wage, for the same amount. . . As to the use of ''hubble-bubbles'' as an alternative of cigarettes which is also a growing practice in the East African country, Dr. Mahdi has kept his reserved position.

''Hubble-bubble tobacco is harmful, but less harmful than cigarette smoke and snuff,'' he said. . . Despite the high cost of cigarettes in Sudan, cigarette companies have not complained of lower sales.

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