By Lanbo Jiang

Japanese cigarette greet “in the history of the most significant” price adjustment, the average an additional 3.5 yen cigarette tobacco tax. The tax increase led the Health Ministry to promote public health from the start, to the degree of tobacco tax in line to the United States and Europe, and that there continue to rise taxes space. The Finance Ministry is worried that smokers away from cigarettes made the tax reduction, emphasizing the degree of the tobacco tax has been “stretched to the limit.” No matter what the government departments to consider, anyway, the sharp rise in the price of cigarettes smokers in Japan triggered a wave of smoking cessation.

Price per pack of cigarettes 110-140 yen

From 1998 to the present, Japan experienced a 3 cigarette tax increase. 1998 and 2003 tax increase rate is 0.82 yen per cigarette increase in 2006, increased 0.852 each. And this increase is about 3.5 yen, and led the department is not raising taxes before the Finance Ministry, but replaced the Health Ministry. In addition to the tobacco tax, also provided to support the production of tobacco farmers, cigarette every other price 1.5 yen. On average, the retail price of a pack of cigarettes increased from 110 to 140 yen, Japan’s “Mild Seven” brand has thus entered a pack of cigarettes 400 yen (about 32 yuan) era.

Labor, and Welfare: There are tax increases space

According to a 2009 national health and nutrition survey results, Japanese male smoking rate was 36.8%, compared with more than 20 percentage points higher than the western developed countries, female smoking rates as high as 9.1%. The price of a pack of cigarettes than the United Kingdom 1008 757 yen yen and Canada are much lower. Labor and Welfare that the price of cigarettes in Japan there is room for price increases, how should Europe and the United States the average level of 700 yen per pack. In determining the tax increase, the Health Ministry Youxiang Finance Ministry proposed to revise the tax system next year, continue to increase the tobacco tax.

Inhibition of Health Ministry medical expenses is required to increase the tobacco tax to be due to a major. According to statistics, smoking and passive smoking each year from diseases caused by hospitalization, death, loss of manpower is about 7 trillion yen. Health Ministry established in 2000, “Health Japan 21” plan, began to develop smoking bans in public places and other regulations. However, because of this effort was criticized for slow progress. In 2006, the Health Ministry on the revised plan, the plan included in the smoking rate to the number of numerical targets, but because of the strong tobacco industry opposition gave up. April this year, Science Council of Japan proposed to the Government should adopt a mandatory legislative measures.

Finance Ministry: has reached the limit

And the Ministry of Health, Labor and the contrary, the Finance Ministry for raising taxes on tobacco attitude is very cautious. Because once the price of cigarettes in Japan and Europe were flat, the number of smokers will make the sharp decline in tax revenue from tobacco-related industries will decline. In addition, if the tobacco companies operating difficulties, the Japanese government held “Japan Tobacco” more than half of the shares will also be greatly devalued.

According to statistics, in 2009 the Japanese central and local tobacco-related taxes and fees were received 2.291 trillion yen, equivalent to one percent of all consumption tax. Although theoretically raise tobacco taxes can increase tax revenue, but because of price increases will lead to reduced consumption, so the Finance Ministry is willing to judge this year’s tobacco tax revenue will be lower than last year, “the tobacco tax increase has been to the limit.”

According to “Japan Tobacco” their projections, starting from October to next March, the sale of cigarettes will significantly decrease the amount of 45%. Japan’s tobacco tax increases in response to the crisis manufacturer, also introduced smokeless “cigarettes next generation”, but also escape the tax increase that the scope of cigarettes, the price of 300 yen per box to the October 1 change in future as 410 yen.

More than half of smokers to consider quitting

Leverage the strength of the economy is indeed great. A price of cigarettes, smokers to have quit. According to the Japanese survey conducted by Pfizer Inc., 92.5% of smokers believe that after 10 months of price increases, the price of cigarettes “too expensive”; 53.3% of smokers who have expressed readiness to quit; in the non-smokers ready to quit, a third said, “will reduce the number of smoking”; only as smokers that “not expensive to the point of quitting.”

Johnson & Johnson recently announced the results of related investigations show that in 2006 the answer is “as an opportunity to quit smoking will be tax increases” the number of only 34.7%, this is raised into two, reaching 57.9%; The primary reason for the decision to quit, the last You Sicheng five people are “for health”, this is close to Liu Cheng choose “to save money.”

Smoking aids smoking clinics and popular

Although so many smokers that tobacco companies produce frustration, but let no-smoking specialist out-patient business is excellent, smoking-related supplements are also sales soared.

Currently there are about 1 trillion by the Japan-smoking clinic. Since the government decided in October after prices of cigarettes, the patient is full of people to “cure” smokers. It is reported that the general anti-smoking treatment requires 8 to 12 weeks 5 clinics. Although smoking can be used out-patient health insurance, but the harsh conditions, need to “root of the number of cigarettes per day smoking age” is greater than 200 before. Smoking for those who need insurance the burden of medical expenses 30%, roughly a course of treatment takes about 12,000 to 18,000 yen, if not within the scope of the insurance, would cost 40,000 to 60,000 yen.

In addition to smoking clinic, but do not need a prescription anti-smoking aids are also popular pursuit, with sales more than tripled over the same period last year. Currently popular on the market is micro-ingredients with nicotine chewing gum, skin patch and smoking can be simulated people “e-cigarette.”

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