Tobacco

In tackling the pandemic, Japan has taken soft measures, such as requesting people refrain from going out. Although this has no legal force, as seen in other countries through lockdown, self-restraint in lifestyles has impacted consumer smoking ...

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Turkey the two biggest points of concern became health and finance, with both points influencing sales of tobacco in the country. The Turkish government had already been pushing an anti-smoking agenda with new ...

Current value sales of tobacco received a boost in 2020, due to price rises across the market and increased demand for the dominant category of cigarettes. Despite a gradual ongoing decline in smoking prevalence amongst the adult population in Chile,...

With some of the highest tobacco prices worldwide, domestic sales of tobacco in Norway were substantially benefitted by border closures in 2020. These border closures resulted in minimal cross-border trade and duty-free sales for most of the year. ...

The largest impact on tobacco as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic was a decrease in tourism. Generally Croatia has a large influx of tourists during the country’s summer months and in 2020 the inbound tourists were roughly 70% less year-on-year. ...

The overall cigarette landscape in 2020 registered lower levels of value growth, with 9% recorded compared to 11% the previous year. In addition, retail volume sales took a sharp fall due to the economic slowdown triggered by the outbreak of ...

2020 was a tough year for tobacco producers in Thailand as the outbreak of COVID-19 delivered several blows to the industry. With the closure of the country’s borders tourism ground to a halt putting a significant dent in Thailand’s GDP and resulting...

Prior to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, consumers had not been reducing their volume consumption of tobacco products as much as had been projected. However, in 2020, the onset of the virus led to a decline in volume sales of cigarettes in the ...

Restrictions imposed to curb the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2020 had a negative impact on tobacco in Guatemala. During 2020, several restrictions were imposed in the country (with these restrictions varying in time) but ranging from mobility...

2020 was an interesting year for tobacco in Slovakia. A continuing shift was witnessed from cigarettes to various alternatives, such as heated tobacco, smoking tobacco, oral tobacco and cigars and cigarillos, which kept overall sales of tobacco in ...

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, the tobacco landscape recorded lower value growth, while volume growth for cigarettes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco declined, with smoking tobacco being the only area to register positive volume sales. Value ...

Tobacco recorded positive growth in 2020, driven by the dominant cigarettes. Distribution of the latter was not particularly impacted by the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, as sales are dominated by grocery retailers such as independent small ...

COVID-19 had a positive effect on demand for cigarettes in Georgia during 2020 for a number of reasons. There was stockpiling and panic buying at the start of the lockdown, but this proved to be fairly short lived. Moreover, many Georgian expatriates...

COVID-19 impact on tobacco...

COVID-19 had a positive impact on tobacco sales in Taiwan in 2020, with two key trends evident in the year. Firstly, there has been a shift in the purchasing of cigarettes from abroad to local in 2020. Before the pandemic, tourists tended to bring ...

While overall tobacco recorded positive current value growth in 2020, the dominant category of cigarettes experienced further declining volume sales, in a continuation of a trend from the review period, as ongoing price rises have placed pressure on ...

Tobacco in Morocco posted a contradictory performance in 2020 with an increase in retail current value sales despite a considerable decline in volume. This indicates that the price hikes companies applied to cope with the January tax increases vastly...

The effect of COVID-19 on demand for tobacco was mixed. The illicit trade was significantly hampered by the closure of Israel's land and air borders for most of the year. Moreover, as most local consumers were no longer travelling internationally due...

In 2020, tobacco saw the maintenance of trends from the previous year. Remaining by far the largest category, cigarettes continued to see a strong retail volume decline, along with current value growth due to excise tax increases, which led to price ...

The social, economic and health effects of the COVID-19 crisis will be felt at every level for several years to come. However, the tobacco industry is expected to be less dramatically impacted in 2020 than other industries as nicotine consumers are ...