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French MP Proposes Cigarette Tax to Cover Cost of Wildfires

Summary by The Local - Fr
A French MP has announced his intention to propose a new law to tax tobacco companies to pay for the cost of fighting France's increasing wildfires - his reasoning being that many fires are started accidentally by carelessly dropped cigarette butts.

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Yannick Neuder, MP LR and former Minister of Health, announced that he was going to table a text in the assembly so that cigar makers "take their share" after the fires that went through France. Butts are regularly pointed at.

·Paris, France
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Faced with the increase in fires this summer, MP LR Yannick Neuder wants to make a contribution to the tobacco industry. He proposes to tax cigarette manufacturers in order to finance reforestation and ways of...

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Former Minister of Health Yannick Neuder proposes to tax tobacco manufacturers to finance firefighting.

·France
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Former Minister of Health, MP LR Yannick Neuder wants to table a bill to finance firefighting by taxing tobacco manufacturers Yannick Neuder, MP LR

·France
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Former Minister of Health under François Bayrou, MP LR Yannick Neuder wants to table a bill to finance firefighting by taxing tobacco manufacturers.

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Le Figaro broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, August 5, 2026.
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