"The price of cigarettes and cigars goes up every year by two percentage points above the rate of inflation. On rolling tobacco it's an extra one percentage point on top of that.
Currently inflation in the UK stands at 2.9% - so the total increase will be 4.9% on a cigarettes and 5.9% on tobacco.
The average price of a pack of 20 cigarettes was £9.91 after the last budget.
Increasing that by a further 4.9% adds 49p to a pack - putting the average price of a pack of 20 up to £10.40.
For a 20 a day smoker, that adds up to an extra £178.85 a year."
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