Cigarettes

The average unit price of cigarettes has been rising year-on-year, with these price increases attributed to the high taxes imposed on tobacco products by the government as well as inflation. As prices rise this is having a negative impact on retail…

Volume sales of cigarettes continued to decline in 2021, a trajectory in line with trends observed over the review period, driven by rising taxes, increased controls over public smoking as well as the continuing decline in smoking prevalence. Annual…

The long communicated new excise duty on cigarettes has been valid since 1 January 2022. However, in practice this has only meant a change in the way of calculating excise and it has not led to a meaningful increase in prices, with it now using the…

Cigarettes continued its downward trajectory in terms of retail volume sales in 2021. The rise in prices, due to the raising of excise tax in November 2021, was one of the reasons for this. With the lingering effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and…

COVID-19 led to changes in consumers’ smoking behaviour and delayed plans for cessation, indirectly benefiting sales of tobacco in Taiwan in 2021. The Taiwanese government has been promoting smoking cessation in the last couple of years, taking…

Retail constant value sales (2021 prices) of cigarettes declined during 2021, but there was a moderate rebound in retail volume sales, which had contracted sharply in 2020 due to pandemic restrictions. Nonetheless, retail volume sales remained well…

Retail volume sales of cigarettes declined in Kazakhstan in 2021. Rising health awareness remained a primary driver of the declining trend in cigarette volume sales in the year. Price hikes caused by a rise in excise duty gave smokers an additional…

Cross-border trade, particularly with Germany, and illicit trade was restricted in 2020 due to border closures, and there was consequently a strong decline in both. This would have had a positive effect on the domestic market of cigarettes; however,…

Rising health awareness remained the primary driver of the growth slowdown in volume sales of cigarettes in 2021, with an increasing number of smokers switching to electronic cigarettes. Moreover, price hikes caused by a rise in excise duty gave…

Despite the improvement in the Philippine economy in 2021, the cigarettes category continued to struggle and experienced further decline. Market leader, Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp (PMFTC), maintained cost-containment measures to limit the…

In 2020, cigarettes registered a double-digit decrease in volume sales, as some smokers chose to give up smoking in light of COVID-19 and less socialising also led to less smoking. In 2021, there was only a minimal increase in volume sales, as…

Cigarettes suffered two markedly abnormal years in Finland in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 crisis. People spent more time at home, consumer foodservice operated under restrictions including a cap on the number of people outlets could serve and…

Cigarette sales in South Korea experienced a decline in 2021 as health-conscious consumers attempted to reduce their habit. In addition to pursuing healthier lifestyles noted over the past decade, recent changes have encouraged consumers to move away…

An ominous milestone in 2021 was the closure of the Phillip Morris-owned Tabacalera Nacional Andina (TANASA) factory, which had a monopoly on legal cigarettes sales in Ecuador and had been operating in the country for almost 50 years. However, with…

Sales of cigarettes continued to decline in retail volume terms in 2021 continuing the pattern seen throughout the review period. Most consumers were already well aware of the negative impact that smoking cigarettes has on their health, but the…

With smoking prevalence among New Zealand’s population having been falling steadily for several years, the long-term trend in cigarettes retail volume sales is one of decline. The rate of decline deepened dramatically in 2020 due to the fallout of…

The consumption of cigarettes in Indonesia remained high in 2021, and even saw a return to volume growth in this year, after a difficult 2020. With the stresses of daily life exacerbated by the pandemic, and with more time still spent at home,…

Cigarettes saw single digit growth in retail volume terms in 2021, with sales bouncing back strongly after the decline seen in the previous year. 2020 was a bad year for cigarettes sales with COVID-19 having a negative impact on demand. Not only did…

Cigarettes saw a further retail volume decline in 2021 due to the general decrease in smoking prevalence in the country. Even before the pandemic, demand for cigarettes was waning in the face of rising health awareness, increasingly strict regulation…

After an increase in the Internal Consumption Tax on tobacco in January 2021, there was a further rise in prices in April, building on the increase from the previous year. This had a particularly pronounced effect on volume sales of cigarettes,…