IT has come to light that cigarette smokers incur a collective cost of 118.8 million US dollars. This is, apparently, wonderful news to the tax collector and is even better news for the business fraternity.
But it is, certainly, awful news for the medical doctor. It was reported in yesterday's edition of the 'Sunday News' that cigarette tax revenues amounting to approximately 54 million US dollars is by far less than what is actually spent on fighting smokinginduced cardiovascular diseases alone each year.
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