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Tobacco is up – for cigars only
A cigar will cost you about 4% more today, but cigarette prices are unchanged for the second year running
TOBACCO prices have been readjusted – but only the price of cigars and cigarillos has gone up, by 4% on average.
The price of cigarettes has remained stable and some brands of rolling tobacco have even dropped theirs slightly, between 1 - 3%.
Cigarettes have not had a price rise for two years and consumption in France has increased this year. The government therefore favours a price hike next year. If the tobacco industry does not do it voluntarily then it is expected tax on cigarettes will rise.
Recently the Académie Nationale de Médecine called for a “massive and reiterated” increase in price, considering that it would be the best way to get people to smoke less.
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