Man arrested over illegally imported cigarettes
(UTV|COLOMBO) – A person has been arrested by the Police Special Task Force (STF) over possession of illegally imported foreign cigarettes to the county. Reportedly,...
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Finance Minister issues gazette reducing excise duty on cigarettes
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera has issued a gazette reducing the excise duty of a certain variety of cigarettes, a move drug resource centres say would...
Suspect arrested with cigarettes worth Rs.1.3M
(UTV|COLOMBO) – An individual who attempted to illegally smuggle in a stock of foreign cigarettes worth Rs.1.3 million has been arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport...
SLMA denounces moves to import foreign cigarettes
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Campaigners against tobacco use alleged that measures to licence the import of foreign cigarettes were expedited, during the same week declared as the National...
Stop importing cigarettes from China: Rajitha tells PM
(UTV|COLOMBO) – In an apparent confrontation with Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne has written to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe requesting him to suspend...
Two Lankans held with cigarettes worth over Rs 4 million
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Two Sri Lankan passengers have been detained at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) for smuggling in 83,380 cigarettes sticks to be traded across the...
Ban on sale of single cigarettes to be approved
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – The Ministry of Health says it will today present the cabinet paper to the Cabinet of Ministers that includes the rules and...
Sale of individual cigarettes to be banned?
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Minister of Health Rajitha Senaratne is due to sign the cabinet paper which includes the rules and regulations that prevent the sale...
‘Loose’ sale of cigarettes to be banned
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Minister of Health, Rajitha Senaratne, stated that his Ministry is currently working on a Cabinet paper to ban the sale of individual...