Tobacco duty rates will increase on 26 November 2025 by RPI + 2 percentage points, and again on 1 October 2026 by the same rate plus an additional 2.20 per 100 cigarettes and 2.20 per 50g on all other tobacco products
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The crafting of tax policy can never be divorced from an understanding of the law of unintended consequences, but it is too often disregarded or misunderstood in political debate, and sometimes policies, however well-intentioned, have unintended consequences that outweigh their benefits, the report said
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[34] Moreover, cigarette filters enriched in toxic substances that enter environmental waterbodies have been shown to be increasingly colonized by potentially pathogenic bacteria including those displaying antibiotic resistance, as these are particularly well adapted to the adverse conditions on the filters