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Paris – If the price of some packets of cigarettes will be adjusted by a few cents up or down from August 20, it will remain stable for sector references, according to a ministerial decree of July 26 published Tuesday at Official newspaper.
These new prices, published in a decree in the Official Journal on Tuesday, will come into effect on Monday, August 20, said the Ministry of Action and Public Accounts and the Ministry of Health, in a joint statement.
The average price of the pack of 20 cigarettes remains stable at 7.90 euros, with prices ranging from 7.60 euros to 9.30 euros and " nearly half of the packets of 20 cigarettes still has a price equal to or greater than 8 euros ", indicates the document.
In detail, the pack of 20 Marlboro Red (Philip Morris group), which costs 8 euros since March 1 against 7.30 euros before, will keep this price, just like the pack of Gauloises blondes. Camel's packages are also stable at 7.90 euros.
Winfield Red 20 units go from 7.70 euros to 7.90 euros, just like Winfield blue.
" There is no surprise " on these evolutions, AFP commented Éric Sensi-Minautier, Director of Public Affairs of British American Tobacco (BAT), in fourth place on the French cigarette market.
" The big references (Marlboro, Lucky Strike, etc.) do not change, and it's quite logical.After a shock of taxes (…) unprecedented in March, it is normal that prices stabilize and that the market resumes breathing "he continued.
In France, tobacco manufacturers set sales prices, but the government can encourage increases by varying taxes, which represent more than 80% of the price.
This is the fifth tobacco price revision since the arrival of the Macron government in May 2017 after four years of stability.
To reduce tobacco consumption, the government has planned a series of successive increases to reach, by November 2020, a price of 10 euros per pack of 20 cigarettes.
Tobacco, which causes cancer and cardiovascular disease, kills some 75,000 French people each year.
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