Angry against the arrival of neutral package, scheduled from Friday, tobacconists claim to be received by Francois Hollande.
After taxis or road, it is the turn of tobacconists threatening to block the entrances of the ten stadiums during the football Euro (10 June-10 July 2016), as Le Parisien, Aujourd’hui en France . Headwind against the arrival of neutral package, measuring flagship Health law the decree is to be published this Friday, they point to “an incomprehensible government decision,” according to the president of the Confederation of tobacconists in France, Philippe Montredon. “We feel that is stigmatized, he lamented this morning on RMC. Holland does not like tobacconists. He has the courage to get us. ”
Tobacco lessees want to get the near doubling of the commission paid to them on the price of each pack sold. They would see its share from 6.9% to 11%. Tobacconists also demanding a reduction to two cartridges in the number of cigarettes that can be imported from abroad instead of four now. For tobacconists denounce the lack of consultation with other European countries. “We will switch when the package will arrive neutral throughout Europe. Needless to impose additional competition. This is not what we need. “
If the decree implementing the measure is published this Friday, it is only from 1 January 2017 that will necessarily tobacconists sell neutral packages in tobacco shops. So they will have a little over seven months to sell their stocks. “Nothing was planned. There is no reflection on the resumption of unsold products that would “worries Pascal Montredon. But seven months will also be used to rethink the organization of trade. “We can not keep a wall of horrors in our stores. It must help us to redevelop, modernize and diversify, “says Bernard Gasq, president of the Federation of tobacconists Ile-de-France, cited by Le Parisien .
“Our priority is that tobacco is declining”
In response to this concern, Marisol Touraine has defended its policy this morning on France Info. “Our priority is that tobacco is declining. Tobacco kills more in France because there are more smokers in France than elsewhere. ” Its cost is estimated between 12 billion euros per year, according to the health insurance and 25.9 billion euros, according to the Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Instead of further increasing the price of pack of cigarettes, as advocated by the Court of Auditors, the government has preferred a “marketing” solution. “All that is marketing a phenomenal impact, especially among young people,” said the minister. For this purpose, if solutions for professionals, it announced, in addition to neutral packages, new measures to help smokers quit. “This year we will launch a smoking prevention fund that will provide € 32 million,” she said. “In the coming weeks,” information campaigns will be launched. “Since there is a smartphone Service (Tabac Info Service, ed), the results are spectacular: more than 30% of smokers stopped,” she says
Voted end of 2015. the measure on neutral packages – no color, logo and covered about 65% of its surface by shocks photos and health messages – had been a long standoff between the Minister of Health and tobacconists which multiplied the punch operations.
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