Cigarette shortage as consumers get into queues

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Following a recent cabinet decision to impose a 15 percent VAT on cigarettes and to increase the production tax byRs 5 per cigarette, a shortage of cigarettes has been experienced by consumers.

The following picture was taken in Matara as consumers queue up to buy cigarettes.

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