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The Pharmaceutical Association of Thailand and other related agencies on Sunday voiced opposition to the government’s plan to make e-cigarettes legal.

The tax on cigarettes goes up from Friday (October 1), according to new tax rates announced in the Royal Gazette today.

The price of a pack of cigarettes is expected to rise 6-8 baht from next month after Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting approved the new tobacco tax structure.

A new tax is expected to raise the price of a pack of cigarettes by 6-8 baht from next month.

A new tobacco tax structure effective from October 1 will bring more than THB60 billion revenue per year, according to the Excise Departments estimates.

Thailand should stop selling cool cigarettes to prevent addiction, Dr Ronnachai Kongsakon, director of the Tobacco Control Research and Knowledge Management Centre at Mahidol University, said.

Though Thailand still has over 10 million smokers, who praises government’s efforts to curb addiction to cigarettes

Singapore - Smokers in Singapore will no longer have to sneak a drag on the street, with the launch of the city-state's first air-conditioned "smoking cabin", but the experience won few fans among cigarette puffers on Wednesday.

Thai people prefer less harmful products to cigarettes due mainly to health concerns, a new survey on the tobacco industry and smoke-free alternatives says.

Allowing smoke-free products seen as more effective in discouraging tobacco smokers than plain packaging.

Cigarettes are to be sold only in plain packages in Thailand to discourage smoking, under new regulations approved by the National Tobacco Products Control Committee.

A NEW REGULATION will ban the sale of cigarettes and tobacco at all prisons across the country to reduce the number of inmates falling sick or dying from respiratory diseases, Corrections Department director-general |Pol Colonel Narat Savettanan said.