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Debate over raising cigarette prices returns after 11 years of flat prices
- Calls for a cigarette price increase have resurfaced after a medical expert proposed nearly doubling the price of a pack from 4,500 won to 8,500 won ($3.40 to $6.40) to curb smoking.
- The price has remained at 4,500 won since 2015.
- Park Eun-cheol, a vice president of the National Academy of Medicine of Korea, made the proposal Tuesday at a forum co-hosted by the academy and the Korean Association of Medical Journalists.
- He argued that cigarettes have become more affordable as the minimum wage and
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