Bad news in perspective for smokers! Indeed, with the current inflation, the cigarette pack will know a price increase. After two years of stability, packages are set to be around 70 cents more expensive than today by 2024. A new reason to go vaping ?
TOWARDS AN AVERAGE PRICE OF 11 EUROS IN 2024!
It's a blow for smokers but it's a small victory for the National Committee Against Smoking (CNCT). Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced on Monday: the price of a pack of cigarettes will increase as inflation ».
After two years of stability, the package will undergo a first increase of 50 cents in 2023, then a second of 35 cents in 2024, to reach an average price of 11 Euros, said Bercy. Overall, the packages are brought to be approximately 70 cents more expensive than today.
For its part, the CNCT welcomes this decision and declares: « Tax increases are the most effective and cost-effective tool to reduce tobacco consumption, as shown by all of the scientific literature"
Without ever taking the trouble to mention the essential role that vaping plays in quitting smoking, the CNCT demand to see the tax increase« on all tobacco products", quoting « cigarettes, rolling tobacco, heated tobacco", for« avoid consumption transfers"
« Two million fellow citizens have quit smoking since the price of a pack of cigarettes was increased, it is a strong axis of prevention", said the Minister of Health on Tuesday Francois Braun.
In a world where inflation does and threatens to do enormous damage to society, the stick remains the government's preferred solution. If the increase in the price of tobacco can be dissuasive, it does not solve the problem of addiction. Today, the vape remains the first alternative to risk reduction available in the country and it is towards this solution that we must turn first to reduce the prevalence of smoking.
