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Tobacco fight taken to Sri LankaTobacco fight taken to Sri Lanka
John Rimmer
15-Apr-2006
The precarious future of duty-free tobacco was thrown into relief once again earlier this month when the Sri Lankan government made good its pledge to ban sales of tobacco at the country's arrivals duty-free stores and on board flights into Colombo
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This time it was not public health behind the move, but a misguided belief that removing arrivals sales would benefit local producers and increase tax revenues to the government.
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