“Price of cigarette will rise in Azerbaijan”

According to the results of research carried out among 13000 pupil till age of 15, 10% of them intended to use tobacco products, 7% used it, Director of the Center of Public Health and Reform Jeyhun Mammadov said at the event held on May 31 - World No Tobacco Day, APA reports.

Mammadov said that it was an unpleasant fact and added that the Azerbaijani government had to join efforts against the tobacco epidemic.

In his speech, MP Musa Guliyev spoke about the measures for combating the tobacco. He said that it was necessary to restrict the tobacco producers for combating the tobacco. Guliyev said that Azerbaijan was one of the countries where the tobacco and tobacco products are cheap. According to him, it will be recommended to increase the excise taxes used in cigarette production in the country. The relevant amendments will be made to the Tax Code concerning it: “The price of tobacco products will rise and it will decrease the tendency of poor people to the cigarette and prevent the acquisition of cigarette by teenagers and children”.

The MP also noted that the law, which will create serious legal basis of work on combating the cigarette, will be adopted in Azerbaijan in the near future.


/APA/