Average price of cigarettes in Germany 1965-2023

Cigarettes in Germany have become increasingly more expensive, at around 35 euro cents per cigarette in 2023. A significant spike is visible between 2000 and 2005. How is the annual price increase affecting smoking?

Up in smoke

Cigarette prices are ruled by specific taxes imposed within a country. In Germany, revenues from the tobacco tax amounted to 14.2 billion euros in 2022. With the habit long since confirmed as unhealthy and burning increasingly larger holes in consumer budgets, smokers may reconsider buying a packet. The average daily use of taxed cigarettes in Germany has been decreasing in the last ten years. If in 2004 around 305 million cigarettes were smoked, by 2022 the number had fallen to 175 million.

Which EU country lights up the most?

Health considerations as well as financial ones typically influence cigarette consumption trends among the population, and with healthy lifestyle suggestions becoming more and more mainstream, it is no wonder that consumption levels are falling. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may have also influenced this development.
Among European countries, Germany does not have the highest share of individuals smoking daily. In fact, the three leading nations in this case are Turkey, Bulgaria and Latvia.