As part of the policy to fight against smoking, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, wants to arrive at a pack of cigarettes to ten euros in three years. To avoid the development of the parallel market, the minister notably advocated European harmonization.
ARRIVE AT A PRICE OF 10 EUROS OF THE CIGARETTE PACKAGE IN 2020!
It is undeniably a point of contention. Asked this Thursday on the channel CNews, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, explained that she was in favor of increasing the price of a packet of cigarettes by one euro per year. The objective is to arrive at a package of 10 euros by 2020.
To make this measure effective, the minister wants a rapid and consistent increase in tobacco prices. "What matters for people to quit smoking is that the increases are significant», She insisted. Because according to the World Health Organization (WHO), increasing the price of the package to reduce the number of buyers is "the most effective method to stem the spread of tobacco use". In general, young people would be particularly sensitive to a price variation: a weighty argument for the Minister of Health, whose objective is to achieve the first “tobacco-free generation”. Nevertheless, Agnès Buzyn wants to prevent the French from feeling taken aback: "We're not going to do it all at once because I want the French to have time to prepare to quitTo smoke, she assured.
So, each pack of cigarettes will it cost one more euro from the first of January 2018? Contacted by Le Figaro, the Ministry of Solidarity and Health could not provide more details, explaining that the arbitrations were still underway, but that an officialization would take place in the coming weeks.
