TOBACCONISTS STRIKE

BY MONICA DOBIEA TOBACCONIST strike in France has seen 88 per cent of the country's 34,000 state-run tobacco shops close their doors or refused to sell cigarettes for a day (20-10) because of a recent 20 per cent price increase, the second hike this year.Another 20 per cent rise is expected in January, raising the price of cigarettes by fifty per cent in six months making a pack in France of 20 cigarettes Euro 5.50 (GBPounds 3.85), the third most expensive in Europe behind Norway and Britain.The move has made retailers worry about their livelihoods, fearing ...


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