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…

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,…

Overall, the pandemic and rising health concerns among the population did not provide any overwhelming impetus to quit smoking among consumers. In fact, the opposite trend was observed amongst many smokers in Bulgaria in 2020 who believed that…

As of 1 January 2021, the minimum legal age for smoking in Singapore was increased to 21 years. This is the final phase of the progressive adjustment where the minimum legal age of purchasing tobacco products increased from 18 to 19, 20 and 21 years…

After a peak the year before, retail volume sales remained at a high level and significantly superior to pre-pandemic levels in the second year of the pandemic in 2021, because of limited opportunities for legal and illegal cross-border sales due to…

The decline in cigarettes volume sales seen in Argentina in 2021 was largely attributable to the economic instability in the country, which caused weaker purchasing power amongst middle- and low-income socioeconomic groups. As a result, some smokers…

COVID-19 brought great changes to Portuguese consumers’ lifestyles, limiting people’s movement and social interactions. Allied with the tourism decline and the ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes from May 2020, this fuelled decline in both value…

As COVID-19 effects took hold of Brazil for much of 2020 and 2021, a migration towards legally traded brands and companies took place, resulting in significant declines for illicit cigarettes and positive retail volume growth for the category. This…

In 2021, cigarettes continued to record a sharp decline in volume sales, following the final stage of tax increases. In December 2017, the government announced a reform of the tobacco tax scheme from 2018 to 2022, to increase the taxes on cigarettes…

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…