Category: Tobacco Products
Europe Tobacco Products
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Serbia Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco
... is that the price gap between cigarettes and cigars and cigarillos has narrowed, due to continued hefty tax hikes for cigarettes. This gives the impression to consumers that cigars and cigarillos are less expensive than ... Read More
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Serbia Tobacco
... a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2019-2023, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading ... Read More
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Serbia Smokeless Tobacco, E-Vapour Products and Heated Tobacco
... cigarettes and associated products, regardless of their nicotine content. This category encompasses various electronic-type cigarettes, including disposable and refillable e-vapour devices, e-liquids, herbal smoking products and nicotine pouches. The new regulations prohibit the sale of ... Read More
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North Macedonia Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco
... continued to gain ground as an economical substitute for cigarettes as unit prices for the latter rose due to a further tax hike and disposable incomes remained under pressure amidst elevated inflation. Additionally, switching was ... Read More
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Latvia Smokeless Tobacco, E-Vapour Products and Heated Tobacco
... vaping systems. While this growth trend has been consistent over the historic period, there are signs of a slight slowdown, although sales remain robust, maintaining strong double-digit growth rates. Heated tobacco, in particular, emerged as ... Read More
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North Macedonia Cigarettes
... with rising health-consciousness. Having recently become more pronounced due to concerns surrounding the pandemic and constantly reinforced by public campaigns warning of the dangers of smoking, the latter trend is increasingly driving existing smokers to ... Read More
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Ukraine Tobacco
... launching new products. These launches were mostly in cigarettes, such as larger packs consumers looking for more economical options, and heated tobacco. Old-fashioned cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco suffered the most in the final year ... Read More
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Lithuania Smokeless Tobacco, E-Vapour Products and Heated Tobacco
... harmful, particularly single-use vaping devices and heated tobacco. Despite strict limitations on marketing, flavours, and distribution, sales have been rising, drawing increased attention from the government. Consequently, an excise tax was imposed starting January 1, ... Read More
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Latvia Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco
... these products. In the case of cigars, the sales decline observed in 2023 aligns with long-term negative trends prevalent in the category. Conversely, declining volume sales of cigarillos followed a period of remarkable growth, propelled ... Read More
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Lithuania Tobacco
... is genuinely decreasing or if consumers are merely transitioning to different forms of tobacco consumption. In 2023, the illicit trade in tobacco gained significant momentum, facilitated by the easing of border controls after the lifting ... Read More
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Latvia Tobacco
... trend was the resurgence of illicit trade, which had decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Counterfeit locally manufactured cigarettes are becoming more prevalent. Increasing excise taxes across all tobacco categories are influencing consumer behaviour, prompting many ... Read More
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Ukraine Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco
... and the smoking tobacco categories have suffered significantly during wartime and did not show signs of recovery in volume terms at the end of the review period. There were various reasons for the decline of ... Read More
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North Macedonia Smokeless Tobacco, E-Vapour Products and Heated Tobacco
... retail volume growth terms in 2023. While this was partly because sales are still emerging from a relatively low base, the increasing perception of heated tobacco as having fewer negative health effects than combustible varieties ... Read More
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Lithuania Cigarettes
... created additional impetus for quitting. The decline in smoking prevalence in 2023 is attributable not only to a growing health consciousness among Lithuanians but also to the rising competition from alternative products perceived as less ... Read More
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North Macedonia Tobacco
... tax increases and inflationary pressures fuelled by the global recovery from the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however, as the dominant category of cigarettes continued to see retail volume sales decline in tandem with ... Read More
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Ukraine Cigarettes
... starting base following a steep decline in the previous year because of lost consumers and territories as a result of the Russian invasion and subsequent war, and the launch of affordable packs (XL-XXL) in 2023. ... Read More
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Lithuania Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco
... market players and consumers. However, the government did not overlook this category, and excise taxes continued to rise as usual. Euromonitor International's Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco in Lithuania report offers a comprehensive guide to ... Read More
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Ukraine Smokeless Tobacco, E-Vapour Products and Heated Tobacco
... volume terms. E-vapour products experienced a significant change in market conditions in Ukraine during the year because of the introduction of the flavour ban, which came into force in July (with a one-year transition period ... Read More
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Latvia Cigarettes
... competition from alternative products such as heated tobacco and e-vapour offerings. Moreover, the prevalence of smoking witnessed a decline, further contributing to the diminishing sales figures. An alarming development in 2023 was the notable growth ... Read More
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Greece Tobacco
... consumption. The cost of living crisis, spurred by a sharp rise in energy and food prices, also had a negative impact on tobacco consumption. While heightened stress levels resulting from this situation drove some smokers ... Read More
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Greece Cigarettes
... the country, which had a negative impact on consumption. While this trend is relevant across all age groups, Gen Zs are particularly unlikely to develop the habit of smoking and when they do choose to ... Read More
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Greece Smokeless Tobacco, E-Vapour Products and Heated Tobacco
... focus away from traditional tobacco products, and towards new-generation alternatives, which are perceived to offer more lucrative growth opportunities. Heated tobacco products, for example, were subject to a great deal of new product development towards ... Read More
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The United Kingdom Cigarettes
... legal cigarette sales in the last decade was the significant unit price increase in 2023. The increase was the result of the strict tax legislations introduced by the UK government, which aligned with the latter’s ... Read More
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Greece Cigars, Cigarillos and Smoking Tobacco
... product area, fine cut tobacco, has proved to be more resilient than cigarettes, factors such as shrinking disposable incomes, rising levels of health awareness and migration to heated tobacco and e-vapour products, are proving to ... Read More
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The United Kingdom Tobacco
... in 2023. This growth was mainly driven by rising unit prices across the industry. The combination of inflationary pressures in the UK, reaching over 7% in 2023, and rising tobacco duties, caused all-time high price ... Read More
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