A tobacconist reaches for a pack of cigarettes as fellow tobacco retailers nearby attend a rally as part of a nationwide week of actions called by the "Confédération des buralistes" for a freeze on tobacco taxes ahead of French state budget debates, with their sights set on the increase in cigarette prices due next January 1, in Muret, southern France, on September 7, 2026. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP via Getty Images)