Our industry experts in Australia and New Zealand provide analysi...
Our industry experts in Australia and New Zealand provide analysis, specialist knowledge and essential market data unavailable elsewhere, to build the most accurate understanding of current trends and future prospects.
While cigarette sales in New Zealand have experienced sharp volume decline in recent years, as consumers shift to e-vapour products, cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco has been less affected. Fine cut tobacco and pipe tobacco tends to occupy the…
Historically, fine cut tobacco has benefited from consumer preference shifts from cigarettes, with the category being viewed as a cheaper alternative. Traditionally, when higher taxes drove up unit prices of cigarettes, consumers looking for more…
Despite the level of uncertainty and disruption to the regulatory framework governing cigarettes, the shift away from tobacco towards e-vapour products continued to intensify in 2023, although there are concerns over the prevalence of vaping among…
Demand for cigarettes in Australia continued to decline in 2023. The country has one of the lowest smoking rates in the OECD, with just 10% of people over the age of 15 years being daily smokers, in contrast to the OECD average of 16%. Incidence…