Guidelines recommending countries to bring in higher taxes on cigarettes to help cut smoking rates has been adopted by the World Health Organization on Wednesday. This move was fiercely opposed by the tobacco industry. Delegates from 179 countries meeting in Moscow signed up to the agreement, which gives individual countries licence to set their own taxes on cigarettes, as part of the international health body's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. "Any ...
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