The group, which has members drawn from the World Bank, World Health Organization, the Tobacco Cell at the health ministry, Bloomberg partners and the Federal Bureau of Revenue, has forwarded its recommendations to the finance ministry which state that the excise duty on cigarette packs which fall under the lower slab should be raised from Rs33 to Rs44 and that all exemptions on tobacco for certain branches of the government be removed
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On the question of whether e-cigarettes are safe, Vivienne Nathanson, the BMA's director of professional activities, is also clear: "The simple answer is we don't know." But other healthcare professionals strongly disagree with the BMA's precautionary stance