{"id":5476,"date":"2026-03-25T20:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:49:26","slug":"price-per-pack-of-cigarettes-tax-margin-and-increase-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=5476","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 rigid system where almost nothing is left to chance. Manufacturers propose a price, but the state has the final word, locking it in for every tobacconist in the country. No discounts, no promotions, no local deals: the number printed is the number paid, from Paris to the smallest village. And inside that figure, the balance is striking. Barely a quarter goes to the industry and retailers combined; the rest is swallowed by taxes designed not just to raise money, but to make smoking hurt financially.<\/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>Over twenty years, this strategy has transformed the simple act of buying cigarettes into a political and moral battlefield. What was once a casual \u20ac3 habit has become a costly \u20ac12.50\u2013\u20ac13 decision, especially for the young and the poor. For some, it\u2019s a push to quit. For others, it\u2019s a daily reminder that the state is slowly tightening the noose around tobacco, one price increase at a time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind every pack sold in France lies a rigid system where almost nothing is left to chance. Manufacturers propose a price, but the state has the final word, locking it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5476","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\/5476","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=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5477,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/5477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}