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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ruby Flanagan

Price of cigarettes to rise above £14 as tobacco tax hiked by nearly 15%

Smokers will pay more for cigarettes after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced an almost 15% rise in tobacco duty.

The cigarette levy is to rose by 12.7% in line with the Retail Price Index (RPI) plus an extra 2% on top of this.

The rate of hand-rolling tobacco increased by the RPI figure plus 6%.

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