Politician: Members of the national legislature have received a very large number of phone calls and letters from people wanting to express their opinions about the new bill before the legislature, which would increase the current tax on bidis and cigarettes by one rupee per pack to pay for new antismoking advertisements
Since a great majority of these people expressed opposition to the bill, it is clear that the public overwhelmingly opposes this tax increase
Increasing the tax on bidis and cigarettes by one rupee per pack would reduce bidi and cigarette consumption so that total revenue from such taxes would not increase.