WATCH: Increases in excise taxes will lead to billions lost

Despite the ever-rising sin taxes on cigarettes, the taxman is netting a shrinking tax take. And it's not because people are smoking less — on the contrary, they are smoking more. It is because they buying cigarettes in the illegal market. Economist Dr Azar Jammine is calling for the taxman to take a new route.

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