Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco

In 2022, Mexico suffered its largest inflationary impact in the past two decades. Nonetheless, cigars, cigarillos, and smoking tobacco demonstrated a certain level of resilience, driven mainly by cigars, which holds the largest value share in the…

The withdrawal of all COVID-19 control measures in Austria during 2021 and into 2022 led to a complete return to pre-pandemic socialising habits and lifestyles among the local population by the end of the review period. This resulted in a…

The smoking of cigars in Colombia is not an entrenched tradition, but despite this the category did see positive growth in value and volume terms during 2022, continuing the pattern seen in 2021. With COVID-19 restrictions being lifted there was an…

In a major development, authorities introduced a ban on shisha smoking in 2022, following other African countries such as Kenya, The Gambia, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana. In addition, Mali also introduced a ban in 2022. According to the Ministry of…

2022 saw significant declines in demand for cigars and cigarillos. In cigars, the sales declines registered in 2022 form part of long-term negative sales trends that have been evident in the category for many years. In cigarillos meanwhile, declining…

Cigars and cigarillos have achieved steady growth as consumers increasingly choose to consume more sophisticated products. While cigarillos face lower taxes than cigarettes, they are the same price as cigarettes making them an attractive option to…

Sales of cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco rebound in 2022 due to the reopening of cafés and bars, and the surge in tourism. These products are mainly consumed in on-trade outlets, which account for more than 80% of total cigars and smoking…

Fine cut tobacco registered solid growth in retail volume terms in 2022, while cigars, cigarillos and pipe tobacco all registered a decline. Several factors can explain the positive performance of the category. Firstly, manufacturers have managed to…

Expensive and lacking in popularity, cigars and cigarillos sales declined in retail volume terms in 2022. Indeed, the category continues to shrink in size as there is no real tradition for smoking cigars and cigarillos in Algeria. Cigars are not…

There was a significant increase in volume sales for cigars and cigarillos in 2022, and in particular for cigarillos. With society fully opened up, post pandemic lockdowns, this led to an increase in volume sales, as there was more socialising. The…

Increasing cross-border tobacco sales, competition from illicit trade, another tax increase that further reduced the price gap between economy cigarettes and fine cut tobacco, and the emergence of closed system single use products negatively impacted…

Fine cut tobacco continued to account for considerable value sales in 2022, and unlike cigarettes, registered a healthy volume increase. Part of the reason for the growth was with inflation on the rise, consumers opted to roll their own cigarettes…

Following several years of volume decline, cigar and cigarillos saw a very marginal increase in retail volume sales in 2022. Border trade is typical in tobacco products within the Nordic region, and the return of Norwegian buyers in Sweden supported…

Resuming cross-border trade in Sweden led to a decline in domestic sales of tobacco products in Norway in 2022, following a spike in sales during the COVID-19 years of 2020-2021. Norwegians have a preference for purchasing tobacco products in Sweden…

Cigars and cigarillos registered a healthy increase in volume sales in 2022 and benefitted from people socialising again, as society was fully opened up, post pandemic lockdowns. Though cigarillos are much more popular in Kazakhstan than cigars, the…

The product area has seen two recent price increases: by 2 shekels in June 2021, and by a further 2 shekels in January 2023. In 2021 the category saw positive growth as a result of lockdown and lower sales of duty-free stores. Post-COVID-19, it has…

Although the category has seen a substantial recovery since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, cigars are purchased by relatively few Guatemalans. The majority of cigars are imported which limits supply and distribution in the country. At the same…

Having experienced a drop in retail volume and current value sales in 2020, in the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, cigars and cigarillos saw a return to growth in 2021. The rebound in retail volume and current value growth continued in…

Fine cut tobacco volume sales recorded positive growth in 2022 following the decline seen in 2021, with actual volume sales in 2022 remaining above their pre-pandemic level, helped by the strong growth seen in 2020. The continued prevalence of remote…

Sales of cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco, which was previously one of the most spared categories during the COVID-19 years, collapsed in 2022. This occurred because smoking tobacco had enjoyed a still low level of taxation, and thus a high…