{"id":2851,"date":"2026-03-09T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:54:01","slug":"price-per-pack-of-cigarettes-tax-margin-and-increase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"Price per pack of cigarettes: tax, margin and increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-62.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2852\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In France, the price of every pack is the result of a strict pact between manufacturers and the state: companies propose, but customs and government decide. Once validated, the price is identical in every tobacconist, with no discounts, no promotions, no \u201cgood deals.\u201d Around 75\u201380% of what you pay is tax, barely 15% goes to the manufacturer, and about 8\u201310% to the tobacconist. On 1 January 2026, a new increase pushed most packs to around \u20ac12.50\u2013\u20ac13, with cheap brands almost wiped out. Cartons now easily reach \u20ac250\u2013\u20ac390, while a 30 g pouch of rolling tobacco costs up to nearly \u20ac19.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKVSgazmnL3QZFNSoNlti7-KtBkuB6rRsiqg&amp;s\" alt=\"Cigarette pricing across countries reveals how taxation, public health  priorities, and regulatory frameworks directly shape consumer behavior.  What may appear as a simple retail price is actually the outcome of years of\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Behind this financial pressure lies a clear political choice: make smoking unaffordable to save lives. With about 75,000 deaths a year, tobacco remains a national tragedy. Since 2023, taxes are indexed to inflation, locking in yearly hikes that could push packs toward \u20ac20 within a decade. Yet just across the border, cigarettes cost half as much, fueling smuggling and cross\u2011border shopping. At the same time, France has tightened bans: no smoking in enclosed public spaces, parks, beaches, bus shelters, or near schools, under threat of fines for lighting up, vaping where it\u2019s forbidden, or even dropping a butt on the ground. What was once a daily habit is slowly being turned into a costly, regulated, and increasingly isolated act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In France, the price of every pack is the result of a strict pact between manufacturers and the state: companies propose, but customs and government decide. Once&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":1399,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}