{"id":5853,"date":"2026-07-19T20:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:51:58","slug":"price-per-pack-of-cigarettes-tax-margin-and-increase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/?p=5853","title":{"rendered":"Price per pack of cigarettes: tax, margin and increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prices are exploding, but that\u2019s only the surface. Every cigarette now carries a hidden tax bomb, a political choice, and a moral verdict. Smokers feel hunted, the State insists it\u2019s saving lives, and borders leak cheap packs from next door. As \u20ac20 looms on the horizon, one question tears through French<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tobacco in France has become a battlefield where public health, personal freedom, and social inequality collide. With 75\u201380% of the pack price going to taxes, every increase is both a deterrent and a punishment, hitting low-income smokers hardest. A simple pack at \u20ac12.50\u2013\u20ac13 is no longer a casual purchase; it is a monthly budget line, a source of shame for some, defiance for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As neighboring countries sell cigarettes for half the price, cross-border shopping and smuggling flourish, undermining the very policy meant to save lives. Yet the government presses on, linking taxes to inflation, tightening smoking bans from bars to beaches, from offices to playgrounds. Behind the statistics\u201475,000 deaths a year\u2014are families, habits, and addictions that do not vanish with a decree. France\u2019s war on tobacco is working, slowly, but it is leaving deep economic and emotional scars along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices are exploding, but that\u2019s only the surface. Every cigarette now carries a hidden tax bomb, a political choice, and a moral verdict. Smokers feel hunted, the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bzerbros.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}