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Cigarette sales boom south of the border 

The hike in tobacco prices in France does not seem to have affected the consumption of cigarettes, merely the volume of sales. Fiscal tourists are now buying across the borders in Spain and Andorra. In the Pyrénées-Orientales, tobacconists have seen a 42% drop in sales, while in Catalogne in Spain there has been a rise in sales of 35%. Statistics from the Hautes-Pyrénées and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques show a similar trend. This is reckoned to be a ?30m 'gift' to Spain and Andorra.

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