PARIS DEMO

BY MONICA DOBIEFRENCH tobacconists have staged a national demonstration in central Paris, vowing to keep pressure on their government that wants to raise taxes on tobacco products for the third time in six months this January. According to the Confédération des Débitants de Tabac de France, 22,000 protesters took to the streets, including retailers, tobacco consumers and sympathetic mayors, (police estimates said 13,000 protested). French Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin confirmed prices would increase in January despite the protests, but that a generous ...


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