Tobacco

Uganda’s tobacco industry is dominated by BAT Uganda and local player Leaf Tobacco & Commodities, with sales limited to cigarettes. Recent years have seen a dramatic shift away from premium cigarette brands as rising prices due to tax increases have…

In Norway, 2021 was another strong year for tobacco, with retail volume sales growing beyond the record-high levels of 2020 across categories. This was mainly due to border closures, in the wake of the restrictions implemented to stem the tide of the…

The rate of growth in retail constant value sales of tobacco in Nigeria more than doubled during 2021, but this was mainly driven by the fastest rate of growth in unit pricing (in current value terms) in well over a decade. This price hike was…

2021 was a positive year for tobacco in Georgia, with all tobacco products registering growth.

Having performed strongly during 2020, retail constant value sales of tobacco declined for the first time in four years in 2021. After a strong performance in 2020, there was no more than marginal growth in retail volume sales of cigarettes during…

Overall, tobacco registered a fall in current value saes in 2021. This was driven by a further drop in volume sales in the most popular tobacco product, cigarettes. One factor leading to the further reduction in volume sales of cigarettes was…

Following a challenging 2020 for the tobacco industry in South Africa, 2021 witnessed dynamic growth with current value sales surpassing pre-pandemic levels. Much of the declines during the previous year were a knock-on effect of both COVID-19…

Although smoking is becoming less socially acceptable, consumers continued to smoke more cigarettes per day in 2021 partly due the reopening of foodservice and leisure/entertainment venues, increasing socialisation while unit prices remained stable…

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. Defying the increasing health awareness trends and a worsening image of smoking,…

The tobacco market faced exceptional years in Finland in 2020 and 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The trend in domestic sales in these two years does not present the whole story, as the reduction in travel abroad limited opportunities…

Overall tobacco recorded a positive value growth performance in Germany in 2021. However, the reopening of borders and the easing of travel restrictions in 2021 led to declining domestic sales of cigarettes as increasing numbers of Germans once again…

After the introduction of a 100% excise tax in 2019 put enormous pressure on demand for cigarettes, cigars and cigarillos and smoking tobacco, 2020 and 2021 saw further drops in demand, although sales declines were more moderate as stability returned…

As the effect of COVID-19 on the industry remained very limited and did not restrict the distribution of tobacco in Pakistan, sales of tobacco grew overall in 2021. With smoking prevalence remaining stable in the country, prices increased as the…

In 2021, retail volume sales of traditional tobacco products, i.e., cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco, declined, while retail value sales of e-vapour products increased in Belgium. Overall, the smoking prevalence is declining in the…

Tobacco demand is in long-term decline in Spain, but the rate of decline slowed significantly during 2021. Retail constant value sales (2021 prices) of cigarettes declined during 2021, but there was a moderate rebound in retail volume sales, which…

Tobacco registered positive growth across all in products in 2021. With society opening up in 2021 after the 2020 COVID-19 restrictions, increased socialising drove volume and value growth.

While April 2021 saw the re-imposition of mobility restrictions in Colombia, with the country seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases and slow progress in the vaccination campaign during the year, as well as social unrest, the economy began to recover in the…

Tobacco suffered significant value decline in 2020, due to COVID-19 restrictions, with people smoking less due to health concerns in relation to the virus, as well as less socialising. In 2021, with life returning to normal to a large extent, value…

Overall, sales of tobacco in Romania in 2021 continued to be driven by cigarettes, which remained the traditional, basic and preferred option for the majority of smokers in the country. Although the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continued to have a…

In 2021, the isolating and stressful effects of the pandemic and associated lockdowns continued to impact consumers’ smoking habits, but in different ways, ultimately resulting in smoking prevalence dropping slightly from 2020. Some consumers tried…