The average price of a pack of cigarettes has increased from 8 to 11 euros in five years. Nopphon – stock.adobe.com
The Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau presented his plan to combat smoking this Tuesday.
In 2025, the price of a packet of cigarettes will increase to €12, and €13 in 2026, Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau announced on Tuesday. The rise in tobacco pricesis indeed the most effective measure against tobacco according to the WHO and all independent studies on the subject», affirmed the minister during a press conference. The 2006 ban on smoking in certain places is also extended to beaches, public parks, forests, and around certain public places, notably schools, said Aurélien Rousseau.
“Tobacco-free will now be the norm», affirmed the minister, during the presentation to the press of the national tobacco control program. “Tobacco-free spaces – of which there are already more than 7,200 across more than 73 departments – are above all the result of a movement driven locally by the municipalities. Today we reverse the responsibility and establish this principle which becomes the rule“, he clarified.