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Budget 2014:What's cheaper and what's dearer

Union Budget 2014: Items which are dearer and those which are cheaper

Tobacco taxes were increased uniformly for all products with the excise on cigarettes being increased from 60 to 70%. Similarly, excise on gutka and other tobacco products was also increased. Tobacco kills every third tobacco user prematurely through cancer, heart disease, lung diseases, etc causing huge burden on our already resource crunched health care system.To reduce the consumption of tobacco by people