Regional Updates

• Philippines: Senate ratifies new sin tax measure on e-cigarettes, liquor

  18 December 2019 Katrina Domingo MANILA – (UPDATE) The Senate ratified on Wednesday a bill that will tax electronic cigarettes and impose higher duties on alcohol to raise P22.2 billion on its [...]

• Thai court fines Philip Morris $39.7 million for tax evasion

  29 November 2019 AP BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Friday found the local unit of tobacco giant Philip Morris guilty of evading taxes by under-declaring the value [...]

• There is no such thing as a less harmful e-cigarette, health experts say

  24 November 2019 Gemma Holliani Cahya For the past few years, cigarette companies have introduced a new form of nicotine consumption that they say is less harmful, smoke free and [...]