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Wtf? How much are people spending to smoke these days??
They spend to finance there tabacco dealer a bi-yearly trip to the border. I don't trust this type of graph. Every smoker I know buy most of his consomption from a friend buying it in bulk over the border. And it's a 6 hours round trip. Not the next town.
But also the taxe do reduce their consomption.
6 hours to me is the next town (of any size), and the sort of thing one would do every other weekend. How do the French see it? Is that considered an annual trip distance?
Metropolitan France is a very urbanised country and not that big. I don't think there is a single places that would required more than 3 hours trip to a town. And even for 3 hours would be for small but hard to make distances like going down from very deeps in the montains trought very small roads.
In 3 hours to the frontier, you drive over 300 km. The people I know that go to Luxembourg to buy tabacco in Bulk go every 2-3 months tops.
A 3 hours trips is not that long but you have to drive all the way. There is no realistic planes, trains or buses options. That's not something you do when have every things you need much closer and no real other reason to cross the border. For regular people a trip to Luxembourg or Belgium (slightly longer the same driving time) would be a once-in-a-year vacation weekend. It is different in parts of France when there is trains. Trips are more commun, less tiring, much more pratical.