From July 1, 2025, new minimum retail prices for tobacco products came into force in Kazakhstan. Now a pack of cigarettes - with or without a filter, cigarettes, cigarillos and products with heated tobacco - cannot cost less than 920 tenge. The increase was fixed by the order of the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan Madi Takiyev dated June 30 No 332, Astana TV reports with reference to EL.kz. Prices will continue to rise The next stage has already been indicated: from January 1, 2026, the minimum cost will increase to 970 tenge per pack. Thus, in two years, cigarettes have risen in price by almost a third - from 710 tenge in 2023 to 970 tenge in 2026. The rise in prices is pa... [Read more]