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Health groups are joining forces to call for duty-free tobacco allowances for travellers to be scrapped.

Several groups have made submissions on the bill to authorise the tobacco tax increases announced in the Budget - and all have called for duty-free allowances to be scrapped and for tobacco tax increases to be much steeper than the proposed increases of 10 per cent a year over the next four years.

Should duty-free tobacco allowances be scrapped? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:

- Herald on Sunday

1. your views
2. brooke says
   "As a former smoker I absolutely took advantage of duty free prices but if part of the strategy is to price smokers out then cheap cigarettes need to be eliminated."
3. Hairy Scot says
   "Smokers have become the easy target of choice for just about every nanny nut group."
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