From: The Local [France]
French tobacconists once again protested in Paris on Wednesday against the government’s plan to hike the price of a packet of cigarettes to €10. But why do they always dump carrots?
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These tobacconists, known as buralistes in French, regularly use carrot dumping in their protests, just as they did in September 2015 outside the Ministry of Finance to demonstrate their anger at plain packaging, and again on the streets of northern Paris earlier this year to protest the influx of contraband cigarettes.
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Their gripe is not only the government’s plan to raise the price of a pack of cigarettes to €10 over the coming years, but also the increased competition from the black market.
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