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Marlboro is the best-selling cigarette brand in the world, with Marlboro Reds being the top variant

Tobacco duty rates will increase on 26 November 2025 by RPI + 2 percentage points, and again on 1 October 2026 by the same rate plus an additional 2.20 per 100 cigarettes and 2.20 per 50g on all other tobacco products

While evidence of the dangers of smoking was accumulating as early as the 1930s and 1940s, the landmark moment came in 1964 when US Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report titled Smoking and Health. Surveying all of the available evidence, the report declaratively confirmed the link between smoking and lung cancer (along with other diseases)

A cross-sectional study of the impact of standardised tobacco packaging legislation on university students