While some countries already tax tobacco heavily, the average excise tax in G20 countries is 48 percent, and poorer countries tend to be much lower, the report will say.

然而一些国家已经大力征收烟草税，20国集团的平均消费税是48%，贫困国家征收的会更低。

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Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.

两个半世纪过去了，大多数国家都对烟酒征收了某种税。

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Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.

国会批准对烟草征收新税。

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It may make sense to tax tobacco more heavily, or to restrict its marketing and distribution more strictly.

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Tanzania and Uganda have banned smoking in public places and countries like Ghana, Kenya and Mauritius have ratified the WHO tobacco control treaty, which promises to increase tax on tobacco sales, introduce smoking bans and reduce tobacco production.

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Legislators also tripled the tax on tobacco--this in one of the three top tobacco-producing states in the nation.

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