This Key Note Market Report examines the UK cigarettes and tobacco market. Cigarettes and tobacco products are defined as ‘a roll of tobacco containing predominantly broken or threshed leaf, with an outer wrapper of reconstituted tobacco, having the normal colour of a cigar and a unit weight, exclusive of any detachable filter or mouthpiece of not less than 2.3 grams (g)’.
For the purposes of this report, the cigarettes and tobacco market is divided into the following sectors: cigarettes, hand-rolling tobacco (HRT), cigars (including cigarillos) and pipe tobacco. These sectors are outlined using the definitions provided by HM Revenue & Customs.