![]() ![]() May 2018 was a milestone month for the tobacco industry, with regulatory framework passing to legalize the manufacturing and sale of vaping products in Canada. This creates differences in prices across the country. Canadian provinces have their own governmental budgets and, therefore, the power to implement their own tobacco taxes. Tobacco taxes can be used to dissuade consumers from purchasing cigarettes, in order to reduce smoking rates and related diseases. Smoking products are tightly regulated across Canada, with regulations and legal smoking ages varying between provinces. Why are cigarettes more expensive in some regions? Cigarette prices in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, were the second lowest. Consumers could find the cheapest cigarette cartons for just 96.36 Canadian dollars in Quebec. Consumers were paying 139.83 Canadian dollars for a pack of 200 cigarettes, almost 30 dollars more than the national average cigarette price at 112.06 dollars in the same month. Manitoba was home to the highest cigarette prices in Canada as of March 2018.
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