{"id":125860,"date":"2022-06-01T16:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T23:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125860"},"modified":"2022-06-01T16:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T23:26:04","slug":"cigarette-alcohol-prices-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/01\/cigarette-alcohol-prices-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette &#038; alcohol prices increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, June 1 (NewsWire) \u2013 Price of a cigarette increased by Rs 5 with effect from today (01 June) due to the increase in VAT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, The Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka (DCSL) has also announced a hike in the price of locally manufactured liquor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to DCSL, the price of a 750 ml bottle of liquor issued under the Extra Special Label has been increased by Rs 680.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, the new price of a 750 ml bottle of liquor issued under the Extra Special Label is Rs 2500 per bottle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the price of locally produced beer has been increased by Rs 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74796\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/tag\/sri-lanka\/\">Sri Lanka<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related<strong>&nbsp;Posts<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 1 (NewsWire) \u2013 Price of a cigarette increased by Rs 5 with effect from today (01 June) due to the increase in VAT. Meanwhile, The Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka (DCSL) has also announced a hike in the price of locally manufactured liquor. According to DCSL, the price of a 750 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}