Hong Kong’s tobacco tax will be increased for the second year in a row, taking the price of a pack of cigarettes from HK$80 to HK$96. Finance chief Paul Chan announced on Wednesday that the duty on cigarettes would rise by 80 cents per cigarette, or HK16 for a pack of 20, with immediate effect. The move was to provide “greater incentives” for people to quit smoking and to safeguard public health. “We expect that the proportion of tobacco duty in the retail price of cigarettes will rise to about 70 per cent, gradually approaching the 75 per cent level recommended by the World Health Organisatio…