Sensitization of the youth representatives on tobacco control

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presented the Union Budget 2023 on 1st February and announced a 16% hike in the National Calamity Contingent Duty (NCCD) in certain cigarettes.This is the first increase in the NCCD on cigarettes since the Union Budget for the financial year 2020-21. Following the announcement in the Budget 2023-24, excise duty on filter cigarettes of length more than 70 mm but not exceeding 75 mm will go up to ₹ 630 per 1,000 sticks from ₹ 545 per 1,000 sticks. Similarly, excise on filter cigarettes of length over 65 mm but not exceeding 70 mm will go up to ₹ 510 per 1,000 sticks from ₹ 440 earlier, while the same for filter cigarettes of length not exceeding 65 mm will be ₹ 510 per per per 1,000 sticks, up from ₹ 440. For non-filter cigarettes of length not exceeding 65 mm, excise duty has been hiked to ₹ 230 per 1,000 sticks from ₹ 200, and for those of length exceeding 65 mm but not exceeding 70 mm, it has been increased to ₹ 290 per 1,000 sticks from ₹ 250 per 1,000 sticks earlier.