New tobacco prices will come into effect from January 1, 2019, but the time is stable for most references, to a few slight marginal increases, according to a ministerial decree published Thursday in the Official Journal. Among these rare price increases, the package of 20 Marlboro Red (Philip Morris group), which costs 8 euros since March 1 against 7.30 euros before, increases to 8.20 euros, according to this text dated 14 December.
80% of the price are state taxes. On the other hand the price of the package of Gauloises blondes remains to 8 euros, like that of Lucky Strike Blue Classic, unchanged at 7.70 euros, or that of the Camel (without filter) stable at 7.90 euros. Finally, the red winfields of 20 units also hold at 7.90 euros, just like the Winfield blue. In France, it is the tobacco industry that sets sales prices but the state can encourage increases by varying the taxes, which represent more than 80% of the price.
10 euros the package in 2020. This is the seventh tobacco price revision since the Macron government's arrival 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.