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Euronews
Gabriela Galvin

The Netherlands hiked cigarette taxes to get smokers to quit. Many are buying tobacco abroad instead

Smokers in the Netherlands pay more for cigarettes than almost anywhere else in the European Union – and the country hiked taxes again last year, to the delight of public health and anti-smoking advocates.

But new research indicates that raising tobacco taxes may no longer work in small, wealthy countries where people can easily cross borders to load up on cheaper products abroad.

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