Average price of cigarettes in Germany 1965-2024

Cigarettes in Germany have become increasingly more expensive, at around ** euro cents per cigarette in 2024. 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, revenue from the tobacco tax amounted to **** billion euros in 2023. 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 *** million cigarettes were smoked, by 2024 the number had fallen to *** 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.