Japan Cigarette Prices Rose Triggered the Trend of Smoking Cessation

Japanese cigarette greet “in the history of the most significant” price adjustment, the average an additional 3.5 yen cigarette tobacco tax. The tax increase led the Health Ministry to promote public health from the start, to the degree of tobacco tax in line to the United States and Europe, and that there continue to rise taxes space. The Finance Ministry is worried that smokers away from cigarettes made the tax reduction, emphasizing the degree of the tobacco tax has been “stretched to the limit.” No matter what the government departments to consider, anyway, the sharp rise in the price of cigarettes smokers in Japan triggered a wave of smoking cessation.

Price per pack of cigarettes 110-140 yen

From 1998 to the present, Japan experienced a 3 cigarette tax increase. 1998 and 2003 tax increase rate is 0.82 yen per cigarette increase in 2006, increased