Info Figaro. – According to a KPMG study, smuggling continues to brake for package package prices.
The price of cigarettes has never been so high in France that it has never been so simple to buy it at broken prices. Simply go down the subway, go up to a grocery store or walk down the street to find half -price packages. Problem, these are smuggled cigarettes, even falsified. The phenomenon is not new and affects all of Europe. But he explodes in France. In 2024, almost one in two cigarettes (49.4%) bought outside the network of tobaconists, which however have the tobacco marketing monopoly, according to a KPMG study, commanded by Philip Morris International (Marlboro). 24.7 billion cigarettes were sold (out of 49.9 billion) outside the tobacco offices. A number rose 13% compared to …