介绍:
China's Ministry of Finance announced today that the wholesale tax rate for cigarettes will be raised to 11 percent from 5 percent starting from Sunday.
As the world's largest tobacco maker and consumer, China has more than 300 million smokers, almost the size of the U.S. population.
Another 740 million people are exposed to second-hand smoke each year.
Official data shows some 1.3 million Chinese people die from smoking-related diseases annually.
To curb the number of smokers, China released a draft regulation on tobacco control in late 2014 that will ban all forms of tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion of tobacco products.
