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Smokers await their fate  

Jump to full article: Jamaica Gleaner (jm), 2008-04-13
Author: Arthur Hall, Senior Staff Reporter

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Local smokers will have to wait until tomorrow to find out how much more they will pay for cigarettes.

Smokers now pay between $15 and $20 for each cigarette and between $250 and $400 for each 20-pack of the more popular brands.

But those prices are expected to increase with the changes in the tax structure announced by Finance Minister Audley Shaw last Thursday.

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