The south of Gran Canaria will be the scene of a return to the past. The price of cigarettes in the United Kingdom will be 23 euros per pack starting in January and offers are already being prepared in tourism networks to go looking for tobacco in the Canary Islands, something that helps the local industry, which since 2020 has continued assuming with indignation that smoking is prohibited on the terraces of the islands. This ban has not been removed although the Covid19 pandemic has already been overcome. Currently a pack of cigarettes in the United Kingdom costs 14 euros.
It is legal for a tourist to buy a carton of 200 cigarettes and return home rather than buying them at the corner store. Since this month of November the price has been an ordeal. 20 Dunhill Red cigarettes for 23 euros. In Slovakia you can get this for 43 euros. Buy a package of 10 packs of Marlboro Gold tax-free for 60 euros.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced at the Conservative Party conference last month that he would effectively ban smoking among younger generations by raising the age at which cigarettes can be purchased by one year each year. The proposed legislation for England will make it an offense for anyone born on or after January 1, 2009 to sell tobacco products. The tax rate on all tobacco products will increase by 2% above CPI inflation. The tax rate for rolling tobacco will increase by an additional 10%, up to 12% above CPI inflation.
