ECONOMY: Inflation slowed markedly in May to stand at 5.1% year on year, after reaching 5.9% in April and over 6% at the start of the year Good news. After hitting record highs for several months, inflation slowed markedly in France in May. It stood at 5.1% over one year, after reaching 5.9% in April and more than 6% at […]
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Lucky Strike, Marlboro, Camel… Many brands of cigarettes and rolling tobacco will take a few tens of cents and up to a euro. If you are a smoker, this news should not make you happy… Among the new products of the month, the price of tobacco will increase on the 1st March 2023, for many leading […]
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Researchers support the low number of smokers (5%) among Covid-19 hospitalised patients found in various studies. Are smokers less likely to get coronavirus? The question arouses fantasy and rumours since a team from the Parisian hospital of La Pitié-Salpêtrière announced that preventive and therapeutic trials will be undertaken with nicotine patches. Researchers are investigating whether or not this […]
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Since the beginning of confinement, tobacconists who are allowed to remain open, note a strong increase in the consumption of tobacco and cigarettes. Here’s why. Do the French consume more cigarettes and tobacco since the establishment of confinement? The tobacconists have noted in recent days a very strong increase in purchases in their points of sale, authorized to remain open […]
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In 2020, new measures may change your purchasing power. Rising tobacco, lower taxes, radar cars … What you need to know to start the year off right. A new year begins soon. And with, its novelties. Lower income tax and exemption from housing tax for 80% of households, cotton swabs banned for sale, deployment of radar cars in new regions … What changes on […]
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WITHOUT TOBACCO: An experimentation of tobacco-free parks was conducted in Paris since July 2018. The device will be extended to 52 parks and gardens from June 8th Parks soon without tobacco . The Paris City Hall will extend the ban on smoking to 52 parks and gardens in the capital from 8th June. This measure follows the experimentation, since July […]
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According to the latest figures from Public Health France, published on Tuesday 28th May, 2019, tobacco consumption is declining, but the number of deaths is increasing. Cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases: Tobacco caused 75,000 deaths in France in 2015 , which represents more than one in eight deaths, according to the latest official figures, published Tuesday, May 28, 2019 […]
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France has 1.6 million fewer daily smokers since 2016, the government announced this Monday 25th March, 2018. Details. The number of daily smokers has dropped by 1.6 million since 2016, said the government on Monday 25th March, before the holding in the afternoon of an Interdepartmental Committee devoted to health . Some 600,000 daily smokers quit smoking in the […]
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Before the sharp increase of 50 cents expected in March 2019, price adjustments for some packets of cigarettes are expected on the 1st January. This is the seventh revision of the price of tobacco since the arrival of Emmanuel Macron in power. As of January 1st, 2019, some brands of cigarettes will see a slight increase . On average, prices will […]
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A further rise in the price of cigarettes and tobacco took place yesterday, Monday 20th August, 2018. An increase between 20 and 30 cents, which applies to certain brands. Some smokers will not be happy, as from yesterday, Monday 20th August, 2018. Because the price of some packets of cigarettes and tobacco increases, according to a decree published in […]
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