2023-12-18 10:50:00
Everyone knows it well: their professional difficulties do not weigh heavily in the face of the public health issue represented by tobacco consumption, which is attributed the responsibility for 75,000 deaths per year in France. But if tobacconists do not avoid this problem, they contest the means used by the public authorities to resolve it.
“The policy of increasing prices has not really reduced tobacco consumption. It directed a third of the volume consumed towards parallel circuits and purchases abroad. Retailers’ sales have therefore fallen and at the same time, the increase in prices has placed them in ever greater insecurity since the value of their stocks continues to increase and generates burglaries and robberies”: for Thierry Meyronin, president of the federation of tobacconists of Isère, “the rise in prices is causing an increase in trafficking”, endangering an entire profession. It’s very simple…
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