Australia: the cigarette prices ‘down under’ will shock you
Australia takes the cake in terms of the price per pack of cigarettes. A pack of 20 cigarettes costs an average of 25 euros (28 USD). Do you smoke a pack a day? Then you can expect to pay 9,000 euros (10,000 USD) per year. That’s worth a couple of vacations!
This extremely high price appears to be a very effective measure to help people quit smoking. In 1991 around 25 percent of Australians smoked. By 2021, this percentage had dropped to 11 percent.