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Jump to full article: Copenhagen Post (dk), 2009-04-29
Intro: The state has allowed the cost of cigarettes to stagnate while vegetable prices have soared
Over the past 30 years the price of vegetables has risen three times as much as that of a pack of cigarettes, according to figures from Statistics Denmark.
Cigarettes cost 136.4 percent more now than they did in 1979, while prices on vegetables on average have jumped 383 percent since then.
If cigarette prices had risen at the same pace as veggies, a pack would now cost around 90 kroner. But the government, under new prime minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, recently indicated it would not implement a proposal to raise the price of fags to 50 kroner a pack.
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