Wiesbaden – German smokers bought in 2014, according to the Federal Statistical Office about 79.5 billion cigarettes . These are 0.9 percent less on the previous year and the lowest amount since 1991. At that time were still taxed 146.5 billion cigarettes, almost twice as many.
The state took with the tobacco products sold yet more money – because of the increased tobacco tax on cigarettes and fine-cut. The industry adapts to it that they get rid fewer cigarettes – not only because they are more expensive. Whether smoking now switch to cigar and pipe, about statisticians and manufacturers are at odds.
The taxed in Germany last year cigarette flushed around 12.3 billion euros into the state treasury . Last year there were 12.2 billion euros. As in the current year, the tobacco tax was raised in January 2014. “Then there was a price increase,” says Petra Martin Federal Statistical Office. As a result, decreased compared to the 2013, both the number of cigarettes sold and the amount of the fine taxed section to own ‘- if only by 0.1 percent.
The German Cigarette Association (ODP), in which the producers have joined forces in Germany, evaluated the decline in sales as moderate. “There could have been a much less favorable development,” said ODP managing director, Jan mosquito. The declaration with the tax increase he considers too easy: “There are many factors that also banal reasons: If the weather is good, people smoke more.” The fact that many people pay more attention to their health, necessarily affects itself.
Next declining sales expected
Overall, the industry produced in Europe under ODP-information in the face of declining sales less. “Sales will decline slightly in the coming years, we really have to prepare ourselves,” said mosquito. In Germany, however little will change for the works of the manufacturer. However,
The official sales figures reflect only a portion of the actual cigarette smoking resist. According to the ODP about a fifth of this country smoked fags is not taxed in Germany. A significant proportion of these are smuggled or counterfeit cigarettes .
Not affected by increased control of the 2014 are cigars and cigarillos and pipe tobacco. They were, therefore, according to Federal Bureau asked significantly more: sales of cigars rose to the previous year by 8.4 percent, the pipe tobacco by 13.2 percent. But
The Federal Association of the cigar industry (BdZ) doubted these numbers. According to estimates of the Association, sales of cigars and cigarillos shrank last year by 1.6 percent. The statistics of the Federal Office was significantly influenced by the fact that since January 1, 2015 in accordance with the EU definition, so-called eco-cigarillos (that look like cigarettes, but a tobacco wrapper have) to be taxed as cigarettes. The producers but eco-cigarillos pre-produced with the old control characters to sell early 2015 still can. In no one could speak of a boom, said BdZ manager Bodo Mehrlein.
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