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• Up in cigarette prices to keep smokers at bay 

Jump to full article: Business Line (The Hindu), 2009-01-18

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In an effort to keep youth away from smoking, the UAE's national tobacco control team will propose prohibitive pricing for cigarettes.

The price of cigarettes could more than quadruple under a proposal from the National Tobacco Control Team in the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi's The National newspaper has reported.

Dr Wedad Al Maidoor, the head of the Ministry of Health's Tobacco Control Team, said she has prepared a plan to raise the price of cigarettes between $5.4 and $13.6 a packet.

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