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Tobacco sales fell in France in 2021, after an atypical year 2020

2022-01-17T13:06:09.377Z


Tobacco sales fell by 6.2% in volume in 2021 compared to 2020, announces the Confederation of tobacconists.


Tobacco sales fell by 6.2% in volume in 2021 compared to 2020, the year when health restrictions linked to Covid had dried up cross-border purchases for three months, but they held up better in value, announced to AFP the Confederation of tobacconists.

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In 2021, 43,188 tonnes of tobacco, all products combined (cigarettes, rolling tobacco, cigars, heated tobacco, chewing tobacco, etc.) were sold in France, according to figures compiled by Logista, the operator that delivers the few 23,500 tobacco shops in the national territory, transmitted Monday by the confederation. The previous year, these sales had amounted to 46,041 tonnes, a level very close to the 46,273 tonnes sold in 2019, she said.

The volumes should have decreased last year and not remained at the same level as in 2019: it is the closing of the borders which slowed down the decline in sales

”, comments Philippe Coy, president of the Confederation of tobacconists.

"

The decline of last year seems strong because there was no intermediate level: 2020 was an atypical year, not to say artificial

", he continues while the decline in tobacco sales is a long-term trend.

Taxes represent more than 80% of the price

The confinement from March 16 to May 11, 2020 and the closure of the borders from March 16 to June 14 decided by the government to curb the Covid-19 pandemic have repatriated "

parallel consumption

" of tobacco (cross-border purchases, on the sly... .) among tobacconists, estimated in September a parliamentary fact-finding mission. On the other hand, in value, sales of tobacco products fell by 1.2% in 2021 to 21.6 billion euros, against 21.8 billion in 2020 and 19.4 billion in 2019.

In two years, the value of tobacco sales has therefore jumped 11.2%, due to the increase in taxation applied by the government, which has raised the price of a packet of tobacco to more than 10 euros on average.

Between 2017 and 2020, the price of a pack of cigarettes increased by around 3 euros, with an increase of 50 cents in March and the same in November, each year

”, recalls Mr. Coy.

These price increases had caused sales to fall by 9.32% in 2018 and by 7.2% in 2019.

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In France, tobacco manufacturers set their selling prices but the State can encourage increases by varying taxes, which represent more than 80% of the price.

The leading cause of preventable death, tobacco kills some 78,000 French people each year.

Source: lefigaro

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