--FILE--Packets of cigarettes are for sale at a tobacco store in Wanzhou district, Chongqing, China, 24 May 2018. China's tobacco sales returned to
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--FILE--Packets of cigarettes are for sale at a tobacco store in Wanzhou district, Chongqing, China, 24 May 2018. China's tobacco sales returned to near-record highs three years after a significant jump in tobacco taxes in the world's largest producer and consumer of cigarettes. Experts attribute the country's rebounding tobacco consumption to consumers' rising income and stagnant cigarette prices, calling for the government to increase the tax on cigarette consumption to help reduce smoking. China's tobacco industry produced 23.5 million cases of cigarettes in the first half of 2018, and cigarette sales reached 25.1 million cases. That was close to the high point before the tobacco tax increase in 2015, according to data from the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA).