Tobacco

Smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco in Slovakia saw double-digit rises in volume and current value sales growth in 2023. In February 2023, tobacco products were subject excise taxes increase, though retailers of e-vapour products…

Smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco in Tunisia remained an underdeveloped category in 2023. The illicit trade continued to dominate e-vapour products in Tunisia, with a legal market absent. All e-vapour devices and products…

E-vapour products, as a product area, experienced significant growth in 2023, driven by a combination of factors. The increase in excise taxes on cigarettes and smoking tobacco prompted many consumers to switch to e-vapour products, seeing them as a…

E-vapour products saw a marked rise in retail value sales in Ecuador in 2023. E-vapour products was a category that was subject to very low levels of control by the authorities during the review period. However, as it has gained space within the…

2023 saw a continued rise in demand for smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco in Egypt. Heated tobacco products saw a particularly dynamic performance, thanks to their sustained availability across all retail channels, from markets…

Smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco in Hungary in 2023 expanded in terms of volume and current value sales. By autumn 2023, all major international tobacco manufacturers had entered the heated tobacco market, with Japan…

The government health policy over the past decade has placed great emphasis on reducing tobacco usage. While initiatives looked to target and restrict tobacco products, such as display bans and excise tax increases, e-vapour products have largely…

Heated tobacco products continued to report dynamic growth in both value and volume terms in 2023. One important reason for the dynamic performance of the category is the local production of heated tobacco and the fact that these products are…

E-vapour products saw value growth in Spain in 2023. Meanwhile, heated tobacco saw a marked rise in volume sales, while smokeless tobacco volumes fell. While traditional tobacco smoking declines, the prevalence of e-cigarettes, vaping devices and…

E-vapour products, heated tobacco products and tobacco free oral nicotine in the UK all recorded impressive, double-digit growth rates in 2023. The number of cigarette users who are quitting smoking or are now dual users (utilising e-vapour or heated…

Smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco in the US saw dynamic current value growth in 2023. There was a clear winner in this year, as nicotine pouches outperformed the rest of the category by a wide margin, and made a big splash in…

E-vapour and heated tobacco products remains an underdeveloped category in Vietnam, however, this is expected to develop further over the forecast period. During 2022, the Vietnamese government and associated authorities, especially the Ministry of…

The e-vapour products market in the Dominican Republic recorded strong growth in 2023 thanks to the wide acceptance that these products are enjoying. They are attracting consumers of cigarettes and small cigars who perceive these products to be less…

Within e-vapour products in Guatemala, e-cigarettes continue to be very popular among consumers. These products are easily accessible, affordable, and are widely distributed throughout the country. In addition to being readily available throughout…

With the entry of the new government in January 2023, the new Minister of Treasury decreased the taxes on single use e-cigs and refillable liquid from 270% to 145% with an additional ILS4.64/ml. However, overall tax cannot be lower than ILS8.9/ml.…

Smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco was the winning category in Italy in 2023, seeing good volume and value sales. However, we note the absence of moist snuff, chewing tobacco, and smokeless tobacco, thus, the category consists of…

Smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco in Kazakhstan faced significant challenges at the end of the review period. Heated tobacco products, by far the biggest category in terms of retail value sales, posted declines in retail volume…

Smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco saw sales rise in both volume and current value terms in Morocco in 2023. In January 2024, the government Increased the custom duty applicable to disposable vapes from 2.5% to 40%. Effects of…

Heated tobacco products was by far the most dynamic of the main categories within smokeless tobacco, e-vapour products and heated tobacco in North Macedonia in retail volume growth terms in 2023. While this was partly because sales are still emerging…

Sales of Swedish-style snus continued to see healthy growth in 2023 in retail volume terms. The percentage of the population that uses snus daily has doubled in the past ten years. Most of those who use snus daily are under 45 years old. The most…