Cigarette prices: which packs dropped on May 1?

[Mis à jour le 3 mai 2022 à 12h22] Several times a year, the prices of cigarette packs change. May 1, 2022some packages are sold cheaper, noted a document published by French Customs according to a decree of April 5, 2022 approving the retail sale prices of tobacco manufactured in France (excluding the overseas departments) published in the Official Journal of April 12, 2022. Others are more expensive. While most brands show no change in their prices, some have evolved, more or less, by several cents. Remember that the consumption of tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, rolling tobacco, etc.) is responsible for more than 75,000 deaths per year according to French Public Health. Maya Green Spirit, Camel, Marlboro, Lucky Strike, Winston, Vogue, Dunhill… Which brands have changed prices?

What are the cigarettes that lower their price?

Published in the Official Journal on April 12, 2022, a decree published in the Official Journal details the new prices for cigarette packs manufactured in France from May 1, 2022. Most references do not change prices. Others have lowered their prices (non-exhaustive list):

• Lucky Strike Original Red American Blend : goes from 10.20 to 10 euros
• Lucky Strike Original Brazil Tobacco, in 20 units: goes from 10.20 to 10 euros
• Lucky Strike Red/Blue/Gold Long by Pall Mallin 20 units: goes from 10 euros to 9.90 euros
• Peter Stuyvesant by Dunhill, in 20 units: goes from 10.60 to 10.50 euros
• Blue Rothmans, in 20 units: goes from 10.10 euros to 10 euros
• Vogue The Blue Essential, in 20 units: goes from 10.60 to 10.50 euros
• winfield red, in 20 units: goes from 10 to 9.90 euros

In France, tobacco manufacturers set the price of cigarettes.

To know that in FranceThose are tobacco industry (tobacco companies) who set the selling prices of their cigarette packs taking into account the evolution of taxes levied by the State (which represent about 80% of the price of a pack of cigarettes). They can pass on the increase in these taxes, which increases the price of the package, or reduce their margins in order to gain market share, which causes the selling price to stagnate or even drop. The prices are then approved jointly by the Ministry of Solidarity and Health and the Ministry of Action and Public Accounts. However, the government can encourage them to increase their price by raising taxes.

What are the cigarettes that increase their price?

• Winston Xsphere 100’s, in 20 units: goes from 9.80 to 9.90 euros
• Winston Xsphere Fresh, in 20 units: goes from 9.80 to 9.90 euros
• Winston Xsphere Breeze, in 20 units: goes from 9.80 to 9.90 euros

Which cigarettes have been withdrawn from the market?

• Maya Green Spirit, in 20 units
• Maya Green 100% Tobacco Paper filter, in 20 units
• Maya Spirit 100% Tobacco Paper Filter, in 20 units
• Mademoiselle la bleuissime, in 20 units
• Austin red (jar), 30 g 13.40 Withdrawal Austin Special Tube L 130, 55 g (rolling tobacco)

What is the price of cigarettes in France by brand?

→ See the full list of cigarette pack prices on the portal of the General Directorate of Customs and Indirect Taxes.

Which brand of cigarette is the cheapest in France?

The prices of the brands are in a pocket handkerchief but according to the current prices published by the French Customs, the cheapest cigarettes in France are:

• Lucky Strike Ice Crystal Long (20 units): 9.80 euros
• Lucky Strike Ice Crystal (20 units): 9.80 euros
• Lucky Strike Ice Long (20 units): 9.80 euros
• Lucky Strike Ice (20 units): 9.80 euros
• JPS Cool, in 20 units: 9.80 euros
• Winston Sphere Ssl, in 20 units: 9.80 euros
• Winston Xsphere, in 20 units: 9.80 euros
• Winston Origin Red, in 20 units: 9.80 euros

Which brand of cigarette is the most expensive in France?

According to the current prices published by French Customs, the cheapest cigarettes in France are (for a pack of 20 cigarettes):

• Dunhill red Select, in 20 units: 10.70 euros
• Peter Stuyvesant Rouge Select by Dunhill, in 20 units: 10.70 euros
• Vogue L’Original Bleue Select, in 20 units: 10.70 euros
• Dunhill International blue, in 20 units: 10.80 euros
• Without change Dunhill International red, in 20 units: 10.80 euros

What are the next tobacco price increases in France?

In theory, tobacco prices are reviewed twice a year : March 1 and September 1. Sometimes in May, as is the case this year. The next price changes would therefore take place in September 2022. Since Emmanuel Macron’s first term in May 2017, the government aims to lower the average price of a pack of cigarettes to 10 euros, whereas it was an average of 3 euros 20 years ago, according to the Tobacco info service site. During 2019, the government had considerably raised tobacco taxes, which brought the pack of cigarettes to around 9 euros. This price spike encouraged some smokers to cut down (or even quit) as cigarette sales fell by 9.32% in France in 2018 and of 7.2% in 2019, according to a report drawn up by the supplier Logista France. The November 2020 increase was to be the last before 2022. Olivier Dusspot, Minister of Public Accounts and Philippe Coy, President of the Confederation of tobacconists have come to an agreement by modifying the “Memorandum of Understanding on the transformation of tobacconists”: “The tobacco tax trajectory will be completed with a final stage in November 2020 and no new tax trajectory will be developed until December 2022“. This absence of a tobacco tax increase will not prevent manufacturers from raising their prices, as some did in 2021 and 2022.