Sales of different tobacco products in Italy, 2004-2012

摘要

A recent report from the US CDC (2012), using excise tax data, showed a decrease by 33% (from 436 to 293 billion) of total cigarette consumption between 2000 and 2011, but an increase by 123% (from 15 to 34 billion cigarette equivalents) of loose tobacco and cigars over the same period. Those divergent trends have been attributed to the different taxation between cigarettes and other tobacco products (CDC, 2012).