They found that when governments put small, incremental tax rises on the cost of tobacco and when Roll-Your-Own tobacco is taxed at a lower rate than factory made cigarettes, smokers shift from factory made to Roll-Your-Own and roll thinner cigarettes to keep their addiction affordable rather than quitting

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Angered smokers have hit back, with the director of smokers' lobby group Forest, Simon Clark, arguing the tax will disproportionately punish people from poorer backgrounds
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