Cigarette sales in Germany have also fallen to a low due to higher taxes. In 2022, the amount of taxed cigarettes fell by 8.3 percent to 65.8 billion, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Wednesday. The decline was therefore significantly higher than in 2021 (2.8 percent) and 2020 (1.1 percent). One reason is likely to be the increase in tobacco tax on January 1, 2022, the statisticians explained. The tobacco industry association BVTE spoke of cigarette sales at a...
“A spectacular increase”. The figures for seizures in the Pyrénées-Orientales delivered by the prefect, Rodrigue Furcy, and the public prosecutor of Perpignan, Jean-David Cavaillé show a very strong increase over the year 2022. Even if those of 2021 are to be put into perspective, since the year had been cut short by episodes linked to Covid-19.In this department bordering Spain, tobacco trafficking is particularly at the center of the attention of the police, customs officers, gendarmes and police. “We are...
It's a substantial budget. According to a study by the Alliance Against Tobacco (ACT) published on Monday and relayed by France Blue, a smoker spends an average of 207 euros per month. In total, smokers therefore offload 2,484 euros on average each year. According to the ACT, “the tobacco industry does not only ruin health”. The anti-tobacco association believes that in addition to the effects on health, it also aggravates social inequalities."One in five French people admits having given up...
Status: 12/29/2022 11:52 a.m Cigarettes and other tobacco products are becoming more popular in Germany: According to a survey, the proportion of smokers in the group of 14 to 17 year olds has almost doubled. Health Minister Lauterbach is concerned. In Germany, more young people are turning to cigarettes and other tobacco products. In 2022, the proportion of smokers among 14- to 17-year-olds skyrocketed, reaching 15.9 percent in this age group, as from a scientific survey on smoking behavior (DEBRA)...
The loot is impressive: nearly 7,000 cartons of cigarettes, as well as three vehicles, stolen from several departments in western France. Four men suspected of being involved in a major tobacco trade were arrested last Thursday, announce the Nantes prosecutor's office and the national gendarmerie. The four suspects, aged 24 to 52, were arrested at a farm in the town of Red, near Châteaubriant (Loire-Atlantique), in possession of several boxes containing a total of 6,000 cartridges. They were indicted on...
Hold my cigarette Chinese runs a marathon while smoking a pack of cigarettes – now he's being hailed as a hero For the 50-year-old, it wasn't the first marathon he ran while smoking © Twitter / @quintanagonzo Known as Uncle Chen, the Chinese chain smoker and runs marathons. At a race in Jiande, he completed the course in less than three and a half hours - and he did it smoking. 42.195 kilometers is a distance that even hardened runners...
Hold my cigarette Chinese runs a marathon while smoking a pack of cigarettes – now he's being hailed as a hero For the 50-year-old, it wasn't the first marathon he ran while smoking © Twitter / @quintanagonzo Known as Uncle Chen, the Chinese chain smoker and runs marathons. At a race in Jiande, he completed the course in less than three and a half hours - and he did it smoking. 42.195 kilometers is a distance that even hardened runners...
In a few days, customs officers and gendarmes in the Pyrénées-Orientales made several major tobacco seizures. Seizures more and more often accompanied by refusal to comply.A first time near Bourg-Madame, a town located about 80 km from Perpignan, on the road to Andorra. The driver made a U-turn in front of customs officers… before finding himself stuck in the line of cars stopped by customs control. The Bourg-Madame customs brigade seized 392 cartons of cigarettes and 2 kg of rolling...
Three cars following each other never go unnoticed by customs officers. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, while they were monitoring the roads on the border of Ariège and Haute-Garonne, the agents of the customs brigade of Frouzins decided to check the cars in convoy, which looks very similar to a “go fast”.To intercept them, they set up a device. At his sight, a car tries to turn around. The two other cars force the dam and their wheels,...
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced it on Monday: the price of a pack of cigarettes “will increase like inflation”. After two years of stability, the package will undergo a first increase of 50 cents in 2023, then a second of 35 cents in 2024, to reach an average price of 11 euros, said Bercy. Overall, the packages are set to be around 70 cents more expensive than today.Beyond of course the impact on health, this increase could well end...
