Tobacco Registers 35.3% Inflation

The average Consumer Price Index of “tobacco” in the 12 months to May 21, which marks the end of the second month of the current Iranian year, increased by 35.3% compared with the corresponding period of the year before, according to the Statistical Center of Iran.
The CPI of the group stood at 650.5 in the month ending May 21, indicating a 3.8% rise from the month before. 
The tobacco index, which has the least impact on the total inflation rate among the 12 groups of goods and services surveyed by SCI with a coefficient of 0.59%, registered a year-on-year increase of 40.4%.