烟草在线据《烟业通讯》报道编译　　据马来西亚《星报》引用英美烟草公司的业务董事Datuk Chan Choon Ngai的话报道说，马来西亚消费的卷烟中，每四支就有一支要么是假冒产品，要么是走私产品。

　　英美烟草公司希望马来西亚政府今年只实行适度的卷烟消费税上提。

　　Datuk Chan Choon Ngai说，在燃料价格不断攀升，同时又面临着走私的环境下，烟草业很难取得发展。

　　他补充说，由于走私品牌不使用马来西亚当地生产的烟叶，而且又不给当地缴纳消费税，因此，走私品牌给马来西亚带来了双重的打击。

　　在种植、产业与商品部副部长、参议员A. Kohilan Pillay将英美烟草公司基金会提供的17.8万林吉特发放给有资格获得高等学院入学通知书的烟农孩子的仪式后，Datuk Chan Choon Ngai发表了这番讲话。

Illicit trade takes quarter of Malaysia's cigarette market

  One in four cigarettes consumed in Malaysia is either counterfeit or smuggled, according to a report in The Star quoting British American Tobacco's operations director, Datuk Chan Choon Ngai.

  BAT is hoping that the government will impose only a moderate increase in cigarette excise duty this year.

  Chan said it was difficult for the tobacco industry to thrive amid escalating fuel prices and in the face of smuggling.

  Smuggled brands dealt a double whammy to the country, he added, because as well as not having local excise duty paid on them, they did not use locally grown tobacco.

  Chan was speaking after a ceremony in which the deputy minister for plantations, industries and commodities, Senator A. Kohilan Pillay, had handed out RM178,000 from the BAT Foundation to tobacco growers' children who qualified for admission into institutions of higher learning.