Tobacco

In 2018, the tobacco industry in North Macedonia faced many challenges, with the greatest being posed by ongoing strong rises in tobacco excise tax. Cigarettes, being by far the biggest category, continues to be subject to the highest tax rates, ...

Although Qatar faces an ongoing regional diplomatic crisis involving other GCC countries, including trade embargos, its economy nonetheless saw stable growth in 2018 with it establishing trade links with Iran and Turkey. The government has stepped up...

Smoking is still clearly losing popularity in Canada as a result of education and health awareness among consumers and stricter regulations and economic deterrents such as tax hikes imposed by both federal and provincial governments. Younger ...

The Saudi Government is working to reduce tobacco usage through legislation and taxation, as well as moves such as the introduction of treatment services like anti-smoking clinics run by trained medical staff, which aim to help people quit smoking as...

Although cigarettes posted small volume growth in 2018, the category is set to return to decline over the forecast period, as smoking prevalence continues to fall. Health concerns and very high prices caused by strong excise increases are forcing ...

Retail volume sales of cigarettes returned to growth in 2018 after a decline the previous year, which had been the result of higher unit prices, leading to a surge in illicit trade. However, there was a notable switch towards economy and mid-price ...

Tobacco recorded positive current value growth in 2018, supported by an improved performance by the largest category of cigarettes. The unit price of cigarettes remained fairly stable after a rise in 2017, leading to declining retail volume sales, in...

Tax increases on tobacco products to increase revenues to the state budget and limit the number of smokers raised prices, resulting in volume decline in 2018. The January 2018 ban on smoking in public places was also introduced to reduce smoking ...

Overall tobacco consumption in Uruguay continued to decline in 2018. This was mainly due to falling demand for cigarettes, the dominant product type. The declining trend was sustained by aggressive anti-smoking measures, with the country’s tobacco ...

The national economy continued to perform strongly in 2018, with one of the highest real GDP growth rates in the region and inflation well below the Central Bank’s annual target range. These conditions favour discretionary spending on products like ...

Tobacco in Turkey recorded stable current value growth in 2018, driven by positive performances by all tobacco categories with the exception of fine cut tobacco....

Kenya is one of the best performing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa with its GDP growing by 6.1% in 2018, while private remittances grew by 7.8%. However, unemployment remains a challenge, with over a quarter of the country’s young adults being ...

Pakistan introduced a series of tax reforms at the end of 2017 to help curb illicit trade cigarettes and the benefits of these reforms continued to be felt in 2018 as the third stage of these adjustments were introduced. These reforms reduced the ...

In 2018, all categories of tobacco in Thailand saw value growth as unit prices continued to increase. Unit price increases were however albeit less notable in fine cut tobacco, which naturally continued to see higher volume growth as consumers ...

Retail volume sales of cigarettes in Costa Rica continued to decline in 2018, maintaining the negative trend observed throughout the review period. This was mainly the result of rising health-consciousness and diminishing social acceptance of ...

In 2018, the tobacco industry in Ukraine saw another year of mixed performances. Cigarette retail volume sales continued to fall sharply as a result of both an ongoing decline in smoking prevalence but particularly a significant increase in taxation....

In 2018 volume sales of tobacco continued to decline. While there was no change to regulations covering advertising, health warnings on packaging and the smoking ban during the year, the effects of a 100% increase in tax implemented in the previous ...

Cigarettes saw a further sharp decline in retail volume terms in 2018. The Hong Kong government has been actively pushing for a tobacco-free city through various public campaigns aimed at reducing smoking prevalence. With rising consumer ...

Cigarettes, by far the largest and most significant category in the tobacco market, posted a contraction in volume sales in 2018. The market was affected by a number of trends, not least of which was a decline in smoking prevalence and the average ...

Tobacco continued to record high current value growth in 2018, supported by rising unit prices across the market. However, retail volume sales for the two largest categories of cigarettes and pipe tobacco also posted positive growth. This was mainly ...