Ready to spend more money on your cigarettes? Because it is on this Monday, August 20 that the new prices of cigarette packs come into effect with prices ranging from 7,60 euros to 9,30 euros. The average price remains stable at 7,90 euros for 20 cigarettes.
THE HALF OF THE PACKAGES ARE AT A PRICE HIGHER OR EQUAL TO 8 EUROS!
After the average increase of 94 euro cents in March and the adjustments in July, the prices of cigarette packs will change slightly from Monday, August 20.
The average price of 20 cigarettes package will remain stable at 7,90 euros, with rates ranging from of 7,60 euros and 9,30 euros and " almost half of the packs of 20 cigarettes always have a price equal to or greater than 8 euros ”, According to a arrested published Tuesday 31 July at Official Journal.
The government has set a target for a pack of cigarettes to cost 10 euros in November 2020, in order to reduce tobacco consumption. Last March, just after the one euro increase in the price of a packet of cigarettes, sales fell by nearly 20%.
In France, it is the tobacco manufacturers, and not the State, who set the selling prices to consumers. But the state can encourage increases by varying taxes, which represent more than 80% of the price. Tobacco brings in around 14 billion euros per year for the authorities.
Source : Francebleu.fr/
