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Close, but no cigar: tobacco giants condemn budget measures
27 Nov 2025 17:56 GMT
… Director of JTI in the UK, said that he was …
Berset said that JTI UK is calling on the Government … one-off tax on all tobacco products next year, “which … raising taxes disproportionately on legal tobacco products, while throttling funds for enforcement …
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UK’s would-be top diplomat says Starmer failing Israel, flubbing postwar Gaza role
27 Nov 2025 15:39 GMT
… Britain’s foreign policy or have direct influence on London … UK’s experience with the peace process in Northern Ireland in the 1990s.
British … , the former tobacco lobbyist had long cultivated ties with pro … event on Brexit in Harlow, England, November 5, 2019. …
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Britain’s sugar addiction: The silent public health crisis
27 Nov 2025 14:51 GMT
… .
A review by the British Journal of Sports Medicine found … the pancreas’s inability to produce enough insulin. De la Monte … the drinks industry. Simulating the tobacco industry, in September 2016 alone … include a wide range of products high in sugar, such as …
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Global experts press WHO to put harm reduction at the core of tobacco control strategy
27 Nov 2025 13:18 GMT
… tobacco and nicotine products," said Dr. Robert West of University College London … harm smoke-free nicotine products can accelerate declines in … that non-combusted nicotine products play a crucial … cigarettes and other smoking products" and that …
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FTSE 100 Live: London index dragged down by ex-divs and tobacco...
27 Nov 2025 12:42 GMT
… extra two percentage points. All tobacco products will face the same treatment … confidence that the Bank of England will respond with a … most of the London-listed gambling stocks the UK is only one … the heritage of the iconic British brand has "done little …
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Parent calls for action after son, 13, able to buy vaping products
27 Nov 2025 01:20 GMT
Councils in Northern Ireland need to enforce "zero … been able to purchase vaping products from a local retailer in … responsibility to act."
A UK wide ban on disposable vapes … the sale of alcohol or tobacco."
LCCC chief executive David …
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Reeves’s Budget – a black day for Britain
26 Nov 2025 23:50 GMT
… to return economic dynamism to Britain, deliver the growth that … the revenue deficit or increasing productivity. Changes in working practices are … from this government.”
On the tobacco duty rise:
“The black … hiding 75% of old wind farm bungs on tax bills, …
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Pubs hit as price of booze is set to rise after Rachel Reeves confirmed alcohol duty will increase by nearly 4% - while cost of tobacco is hiked above inflation
26 Nov 2025 22:04 GMT
… Spirit Trade Association (WSTA).
Tobacco duty will rise above … once more for consumers, British businesses will suffer, and … whatsoever for pubs in Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.
'Despite around … the sale of alcohol products this year, which the …
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Was the Autumn Budget a Rachel Reeves ‘disasterclass’ for UK shares?
26 Nov 2025 17:58 GMT
… of retail investment in the London Stock Exchange.
A few … Tobacco firms will deal with higher-than-inflation duty on their products … there aren’t too many British-based car manufacturers these days … a tough for one for Britain’s biggest supermarket, to the …
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Cigarette and tobacco prices going up, Chancellor announced in Budget
26 Nov 2025 14:08 GMT
… ahead. Tobacco is a major part of the UK economy - … In 2025–26 the government estimates tobacco … Duty rates on all tobacco products will increase by RPI inflation … , cigars, hand-rolling tobacco and other tobacco products. At that time, …