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Nepal currently imposes a tobacco tax of just 15.5% of retail price which is the lowest among the South Asian countries

On average, in Nepal the average amount of money spent per year on cigarettes is around 11% of GDP per capita. The recent estimates show around US$1.4 trillion of total economic loss results globally from tobacco use which is equivalent to 1.8% of the world’s annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP). About 40% of this cost occurred […]