In the skin of a pack of cigarettes

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I can be gypsy, minty or well rolled… but above all I cost more and more. But this morning, I’m mostly without a filter, me the pack of cigarettes.

For two years, I had been quiet: after strong increases in 2018 and 2019, a million French people had even said stop smoking. But since then my price had stopped rising and smokers had stopped quitting. But anyway I suspected that with inflation, it was going to end up falling on the corner of the pack: my price will therefore increase by 50 cents next year, 35 cents in 2024 to reach 11 euros. Honestly, I expected worse.

Finally, this price increase should not harm my health too much: a 10% increase is only a 4% drop in consumption and since France remains in the top 10 of European countries where people smoke the most despite very high prices, I will not skimp…

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