In order to further reduce tobacco consumption, some packets of cigarettes will increase from 10 to 30 cents on 2 July 2018. The cheapest brands are essentially targeted.
AN INCREASE OF 10 TO 30 CENTIMES OF EUROS IN THE PRICE OF CIGARETTES!
There will be no more packages at 7,50 euros. The brands of cigarettes currently sold around this price will increase by 10 to 30 cents on July 2, 2018, according to a decree dated June 7, 2018, published this Saturday in Official Journal. These are indeed the references that remained around this floor price during the last increases applied last May which are targeted by this texts.
In order to reduce tobacco consumption in France, the government has planned a series of increases to reach, by November 2020, a price of 10 euros per pack. At the end of May, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, attributed to the rise in the prices of conventional cigarettes and the boom in electronic cigarettes, the decline of one million in the number of smokers in France recorded in 2017. She was particularly pleased with the drop in smokers among more disadvantaged " for the first time since 2000“, A sign that for some the package has become too expensive.
Source : Lci.fr/
