Smokers Frown Over Increased Cigarette Prices

Hyderabad, Feb 1 (Maxim News): The moment it was clear that the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced in the Budget 2023-24, a 16 percent rise in National Calamity Contingent Duty (NCCD) on cigarettes, which will make smoking more expensive, the smokers in social media has started jokes and memes about Cigarettes becoming expensive after Budget.

The Finance Minister’s budget announcements on reduction in the Income Tax slab got linked with the expensive cigarettes and have become the limelight with another announcement – a hike in tax on cigarettes.

it may be recalled that there had been no increase in taxes for cigarettes in the last two years and the smokers were hoping that it would continue, to their surprise and their hopes were dashed but social media was inundated with jokes and memes. (Maxim News)

Facts #budget #cigarettes pic.twitter.com/E9jY7TIbUZ

— Rocky (@_Rocky02) February 1, 2023

Or kya haal hai cigarette addicts? #cigarettes pic.twitter.com/dYJQhh3ivH

— Sambhavi Misra (@_shutupNtweet) February 1, 2023

Smoker watching 16% rate hikes in cigarettes#Budget2023 pic.twitter.com/eRcp8r6CdL

— Chill Gates (@ashit_saim) February 1, 2023

Cigarette during every budget session- pic.twitter.com/SmGdLv79YX

— Shyam Meera Singh (@ShyamMeeraSingh) February 1, 2023

suttabaz log looking at their old cigarette packets : pic.twitter.com/sCzATh6GPc

— Moana (@ladynationalist) February 1, 2023

https://twitter.com/Manesha76/status/1620684950365442048

#UnionBudget2023
Custom duty on cigarettes increased.

Smokers :pic.twitter.com/DC3oKN5M5n

— Tweeting Quarantino (@rohitadhikari92) February 1, 2023

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