Smoking is made disasters. Besides being a waste bentok, smoking is also very bad for your health.
In an effort to reduce the number of smokers, the New Zealand government plans to raise cigarette prices to U.S. $ 100 or equivalent to Rp 920 000, -.
The plan was presented by Minister of Health Tony Ryall New Zealand, which recommended an increase in cigarette prices drastically to reduce the number of smokers among young people. The plan, rise in cigarette prices will be set from 2020.
However, the initial plan of this increase will commence early in 2013. Price of cigarettes will rise to U.S. $ 60 (USD 540 000, -) and will increase to 10 percent annually up to $ 100.
"Tobacco taxes are the most effective interventions to reduce smoking prevalence," said one spokesman, quoted by CBCNews, Wednesday (25/4).
This effort is a plan to make New Zealand is free of tobacco in 2025.
Maybe not so, this action will in the example the government of Indonesia?
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