Cigarettes in the Netherlands cost an average of 8 Euros and 20% of Dutch people smoke regularly. The Ministry of Health intends to increase their price by 2 euros by 2025. The Dutch government, however, does not want to stop there and plans to sharply increase the prices of tobacco products by 2040, for which it has plans to reduce the percentage of smokers to 5% and for the implementation of which it intends to charge from 30 to 47 euros for tobacco products similar to Australia and New Zealand where they cost from 30 to 35 domestic dollars.
With this move, the Dutch Deputy Minister of Public Health Maarten van Ooijen is believed to follow the example of Australia, where a pack of cigarettes already costs 24 euros. In addition, supermarkets will not sell tobacco products after 2024 in an effort to counter their ability to sell products at lower prices.
There have been university studies underestimating the intelligence of every person since they “proved” that smokers will quit smoking if cigarettes cost 60 euros. The move is expected to deprive the Dutch whose smoking of other substances than tobacco is particularly popular and widespread the opportunity to smoke regularly or every day. Already in France, where smoking is traditionally popular, the Minister of Health of Emmanuel Macron’s during 2017 imposed abusive prices of 12 Euros, depriving the standardization of cigarettes with so-called plain packaging, something that entices the governments of Belgium and the Netherlands.
Parts of the world where cigarettes cost an average of 12 euros are New York City (13 US dollars) as former anti-smoking mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has decided as part of his perceived philanthropy, Canada, France, England and Ireland (14 euros) and in Oceania are abusively overpriced with excessive prices of 30 to 35 domestic dollars, something that tempts the Dutch Ministry of Health to deter from smoking by means applied to those parts of the world.
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