Encourage local manufacturing

OUR population who smoke tobacco products is a matter of personal choice. But the amount they spend is staggering into billions of kina.
That kind of money is enough to support a huge domestic tobacco manufacturing industry with nucleus and out grower farms to generate cash flow circulation and direct employment rather than all profits going into the hands of multinationals without any value added benefits trickling to the economy.
All excise duties and taxes seem to be chewed up in the government machinery under prevalent systematic corruption.
A real game changer is needed to put some tobacco giants on notice by giving 50 per cent excise duties as incentives for any company that does 100 per cent farming and manufacturing.
GS