Yesmoke Tobacco S.p.A.

A minimum price for all cigarettes. They've succeeded only in Italy.

Three Euro on August 1st 2005, 3 euro 10 eurocents on October 14th , 3 euro 20 cents on last February 7th. The minimum price of a pack of cigarettes, almost without being noticed, has soared in the past months "in an effort to safeguard public health". And they say it's going to keep going up in Italy.

But seeing that everyone was opposed to this, starting from the Antitrust (the Authority that guarantees free competition on the market) and the Codacons (the Consumer Defence Association), and seeing that Italy is one of the countries where cigarettes are cheapest, wouldn't it have been better to raise the taxes, not the price, and on all cigarettes? Read more »