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French MP proposes cigarette tax to cover cost of wildfires

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.

French MP proposes cigarette tax to cover cost of wildfires

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