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End to cheap cigarettes in France

13 April 2012

THE cross-Channel run to stock up on cut-price cigarettes could soon be a thing of the past. The average price of a packet of cigarettes in France will soar 20% - when France's 34,000 tobacconists re-open after a protest strike - to e4.60 (£3.20) a packet.

A second similar price rise, scheduled for early next year, will take the price of a packet of Gauloises - not to mention British American Tobacco's Rothmans and Benson & Hedges, beloved of cross-Channel shoppers - to e5.30.

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