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The News section keeps you up to date with what happens in this community. You will find the brands that appear, the offers they make, and what each of them is worth. The tobacco trade changes regularly, in ways both good and bad, and this is where you can follow those changes on any subject related to tobacco and to the shops that sell it. The section brings together the information likely to matter to readers, so that the shifts under way are known before they arrive.
Read it to find the announcements and opportunities open to you, the new outlets, and the laws and regulations that come into force.
French labour law does not provide for a cigarette break. Beyond six hours, every employee is entitled to 20 consecutive minutes. The gap observed comes mainly from workplace practice.
Read moreOn 2 September 2026, a pack of Marlboro Red costs 13.50 € in France, 6.25 € in Spain and 6.80 € in Italy. Customs rules differ at each border.
Read moreFrom 26 to 30 August 2026, Rock en Seine banned cigarettes and e-cigarettes at the Domaine de Saint-Cloud. The measure rests on the 2025 decree on public parks and on the fire risk.
Read moreBanned from sale since February 2025, puffs still circulate through social media and informal resellers. A look at how the parallel market works.
Read moreFrance’s health insurance fund suggests permanently barring tobacco sales to people born after 2009, following the British model. A proposal still facing political debate.
Read moreAn order of 5 August 2026 sets tobacco prices from 1 September. Few changes: Luckies drops to 11.20 €, a handful of packs rise by 10 cents, and the major brands hold their level.
Read moreHigher fines, bans on beaches and terraces: several European countries are tightening their rules to limit the fires started by cigarette butts.
Read moreA large counterfeit cigarette network supplied from Belgium has been dismantled near Lille. Investigators point to 120 convoys and about 12 million euros in goods.
Read moreA recent survey finds that 18% of drivers who smoke still throw their cigarette butts out of the window, with heavy consequences for the environment, for safety and for fire risk.
Read moreA large clandestine cigarette factory has been uncovered in Belgium. A look at the operation and at the worrying growth of tobacco trafficking in Europe.
Read moreTaxation, flavours, sales rules: the European Union is weighing how to regulate products that some present as harm reduction tools, and that a growing number of consumers use.
Read moreFaced with the decline of the conventional cigarette market, British American Tobacco is launching a worldwide restructuring involving several thousand job cuts.
Read moreThe Polish government wants to ban puffs and remove the flavours from nicotine pouches. A further tightening of the rules whose consequences the sector already fears.
Read moreFrench tobacconists accuse Snapchat of letting advertisements for smuggled cigarettes prosper. A case that sheds light on the parallel tobacco trade online.
Read moreCigarette sales are falling in French tobacconists while vaping keeps growing. What this shift in habits says about the place of nicotine in France.
Read moreThe criminal court in Paris has fined Philip Morris France 500,000 euros for unlawful advertising around IQOS and VEEV. What the ruling changes for manufacturers.
Read moreFrom Marseille to La Ciotat, the 23rd Calanques Propres brought together volunteers, associations and local authorities to collect and analyse coastal waste, butts included.
Read moreA trailer showing cigarette brands has earned Netflix a fine of 250,000 euros. The ruling is a reminder that the Évin Act also applies to content published online.
Read moreCigarette breaks are said to cost French companies 5 billion euros a year. Where that yearly figure comes from, and what its method of calculation leaves out.
Read moreThe European Public Prosecutor’s Office and Europol have dismantled a counterfeit cigarette network active in five countries. Shipping containers and false papers: the method uncovered.
Read moreThe French national committee against smoking criticises Luxembourg for tobacco taxation it considers too low, which feeds cross-border buying. The terms of a European debate.
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