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China plans to increase taxes on mid-and low-end cigarettes (67) curb expanding tobacco (68) in the country. The move follows the tax hike targeting high-end cigarettes in 2009, (69) hasn’t met the country’s target of (70) the rising use of tobacco, Chen said. "We notice that most of the growing proportion of smokers are young adults, who (71) low-end cigarettes and are (72) to prices. As such, I’m confident that the tax hike will effectively help reduce the number of smokers without affecting fiscal (73) ," Chen said on the sidelines of the plenary sessions of the ongoing National People’s Congress. The tax charge is (74) given the growing health and environmental concerns (75) smoking, Chen said.
China National Tobacco Corp, the country’s State-owned cigarette monopoly, reported an (76) net profit of 117.7 billion Yuan ($18.6 billion) in 2010. The profit has triggered widespread public (77) of the company’s windfall (78) Chinese people’s health.
China, (79) tobacco producer and consumer, (80) has 350 million smokers and more than one million people on the mainland die of (81) diseases each year, official statistics showed that number (82) rise to two million by 2020.
The mounting health concerns have pushed authorities to (83) the levy on cigarettes by6 to 11 percent in May 2009. But the tax didn’t curb cigarette use (84) some experts expected.
The retail price of cigarettes didn’t go up (85) as the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau reacted by absorbing the tax hike and maintaining cigarette prices, said Wu Yiqun at the Think-Tank Research Center for Health Development, a non-governmental organization (86) smoking control.