{"id":4585,"date":"2026-03-08T01:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:45:29","slug":"price-per-pack-of-cigarettes-tax-margin-and-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=4585","title":{"rendered":"Price per pack of cigarettes: tax, margin and increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Behind every pack sold in France lies a deliberate political choice. Manufacturers propose prices, but the state, through customs and taxation, decides how painful each cigarette will be. Around 75\u201380% of the price is tax, leaving only modest margins for producers and tobacconists, and ensuring a pack now averages \u20ac12.50\u2013\u20ac13 in 2026. Rolling tobacco, once the refuge of budget smokers, has followed the same steep curve, with 30-gram pouches approaching \u20ac18.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This relentless rise is no accident. Linked to inflation since 2023, tobacco taxes climb automatically, justified by 75,000 smoking-related deaths every year. France is turning the screw: public smoking bans now extend to parks, beaches and school areas, backed by fines for lighting up or even dropping a butt. Yet cheaper packs just across the border fuel cross\u2011border runs and smuggling, exposing the stark tension between public health ambitions and the everyday reality of addiction and inequality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind every pack sold in France lies a deliberate political choice. Manufacturers propose prices, but the state, through customs and taxation, decides how painful each cigarette will be. Around 75\u201380% &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}