Press release No. 019 of 14 January 2022
- Sales of pipe tobacco up 40% on 2020
- Long-term decrease in cigarettes: the quantity taxed has more than halved since 1991
WIESBADEN – In 2021, the quantity of cigarettes taxed in Germany was down by 2.8% on 2020. As regards the sales of pipe tobacco, however, the upward trend of the last few years continued. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the quantity of pipe tobacco taxed, which includes water pipe tobacco and tobacco products for electronic tobacco-heating devices, increased by 40.0% year-on-year. Sales of cigars and cigarillos, too, increased slightly (+1.4%). The quantity of fine cut tobacco taxed was down by 5.6%. Overall, tax was paid on tobacco products to the value of 29.4 billion euros in 2021. That was an increase of roughly 0.6 billion euros, or 2.0%, compared with 2020.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Taxation of tobacco products: Germany, years (73411-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
