The prices of products produced by the Sarajevo Tobacco Factory will increase from July 1st by 0,20 BAM, was confirmed by the Indirect Taxation Board.
This is the second increase in prices of cigarettes lately and to recall, Philip Morris’s company rose the prices for 19 types of cigarettes on June 1st. The prices were increased for 10 and 20 pfennings.
Tobacco Factory Rovinj has announced the increase in prices on July 5th as well.
With the entry into force of the new Law on the control and limited consumption of tobacco and other smoking products on the market of BiH, selling of certain types of cigarettes and tobacco products that are currently available will be prohibited.
“The production and sale of cigarettes that are containing compounds with more than ten milligrams of tar, one milligram of nicotine and ten milligram of carbon monoxide per cigarette is forbidden,” as stated, among other things, in the pre-draft of the Law on the control and limited consumption of tobacco and other products for smoking.
These conditions must be fulfilled by all imported tobacco products, especially cigarettes, besides cigars and cigarillos, pipe tobacco and rolling tobacco.
Also, for sale will be prohibited tobacco products, especially cigarettes and rolling tobacco that are containing vitamins and other additives that are creating the impression that a tobacco product benefits health or that it is any less dangerous for our health, caffeine, taurine and other additives and stimulants that are often associated with energy and vitality.
Here are the new prices of cigarettes:
(Source: fokus)
