Sale of cigarettes falls to record low – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Sale of cigarettes falls to record low – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          An image that is rare: last year the number dropped of cigarettes sold in Germany to a record low.
     

 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                              

Never so little cigarettes since reunification sold as last year – at least in a legal way: In total, there were 79.5 billion taxed cigarettes, 0.9 percent less than 2013 as the Federal Statistical Office reported on Monday. In 1991, taxed at 146.5 billion, almost twice as many cigarettes. Also in the fine-cut used for rolling cigarettes decreased the quantity sold, even if only by 0.1 percent.

                         
         
         
                                                             

“These developments are partly due to the carried 1 January 2014 tobacco tax increase on cigarettes and fine-cut”, said the statisticians. At the beginning of 2015, the tax was again raised.

                          
         
         
                                                             

The tobacco tax is a rich source of revenue for the state. She rinsed estimated that last year, about 14.5 billion euros in the Treasury – an increase of 4.7 percent. According to experts, shows that the economic costs of smoking – for example, because of the diseases caused thereby – but significantly higher

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Overall, tobacco goods were taxed at a retail value of 24.9 billion euros in trade last year. These were 550 million euros, or 2.3 percent more than the year before. Pipe tobacco, cigars and cigarillos were not affected by the recent tax increases. Sales of cigars and cigarillos laid last year by 8.4 percent, the pipe tobacco as much as 13.2 percent.

                                                                 
 
  

 
 
 
                       

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Smoking is obviously increasingly unpopular: the Treasury collected only for just under 80 billion cigarettes tax, after reunification were almost twice so many cigarettes sold.

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