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Read the latest reports on Western Europe, with local insight, specialist knowledge and a comprehensive breakdown of key market data. Our research identifies key strategic themes relevant across the region, while also providing a more granular unders...
The long-term trend of declining volume sales of cigarettes continued in 2022, with consumers increasingly aware of the levels of harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke. Cigarettes posted negative performances in both retail volume and current value…
Sales of combustible tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco continued to decline in both volume and real value (at constant 2022 prices) terms in 2022. Any sales increases in current value terms were mostly being…
From 1 July 2022, tobacco heating devices have been facing the same regulatory conditions as combustible tobacco products. That means that there is an advertising ban and display ban in place for these products, a minimum age of 18 years to buy and…
One of the leading factors contributing to decline in sales of smoking tobacco over the last two years was that the excise tax increased in 2021. The government in the Netherlands is now increasing the excise on smoking tobacco at the same time as it…
Some smokers have been switching to cheaper brands of cigarettes in order to reduce their expenditure on these products. This was being driven by the reduction in purchasing power as a result of the high inflation rates being seen in the Netherlands,…