2023-11-27 20:22:56
Manuel Breva Colmeiro / Getty Images (Illustrative image) The price of a packet of cigarettes will increase further from 2024
CONSUMPTION – Latecomers have a few days left to get on the train tobacco-free month. Which might be for the better in terms of wallet for 2024. The prices of cigarette packs are expected to increase once more on January 1, an increase resulting from inflation which should be 40 to 50 cents, according to estimates from the Confederation of tobacconists communicated this Monday, November 27 to AFP.
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The tobacconists, who were to be received in the followingnoon at the Ministry of Health, on the eve of the presentation by the government of its new national plan to combat smoking, expect an increase in the price “maximum 50 cents on January 1”they specified, confirming information from Echos.
This new increase in pack prices was calculated on the basis of the expected increase in inflation, in accordance with the desire of the executive to pass this on to tobacco, and as voted in Parliament in 2022.
Tobacco taxation is not affected, Elisabeth Borne having ruled out such an increase in 2024 in September.
The Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau must present the 2023-2027 national control plan on Tuesday morning, while tobacco remains the leading cause of avoidable mortality in France, with 75,000 deaths per year.
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