| 1 | The Government has clapped an extra ten pence on a packet of cigarettes. | |
| 2 | And price rises can be managed so that they do not penalise the poorest. | |
| 3 | We need a reduction, not an increase in prices. A return to the historical norm, not to the recent anomaly. | |
| 4 | For the carriers, stringent state regulations tend to dampen price competition, giving them latitude to increase prices -- a pattern that's now causing a political uproar. | |
| 5 | Chinese steel executives feel particularly aggrieved because they agreed last year to an increase of up to 97 percent and then watched prices tumble with the global economy. |
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