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Wiesbaden (dpa) - The temporary border closings during the Corona crisis brought the German state higher revenues from tobacco tax last year.
The sales value of taxed tobacco products rose by 5.0 percent compared to 2019 to 28.8 billion euros, as the Federal Statistical Office reported on Monday in Wiesbaden.
The statisticians attributed the 10.6 percent increase in fine-cut cigarette tobacco to the border closings.
"When looking for an alternative to the cheaper cigarettes from abroad, consumers were increasingly turning to fine-cut cigarettes to roll their own cigarettes."
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Pipe tobacco also increased again by 44.3 percent: The taxed amount rose by 1,838 tons to 5989 tons.
This mainly contains tobacco for water pipes and tobacco products for electric heaters, while classic pipe tobacco is finding fewer and fewer followers, as the office explained.
The number of taxed cigarettes also fell by 1.1 percent, at 73.8 billion units.
This has almost halved the number since 1991.
Immediately after German reunification, there were still 146.5 billion cigarettes a year.
Since then, there have been numerous laws to curb the harmful use of tobacco and no fewer than 14 tax increases.
In contrast, sales of all other tobacco products have risen significantly since 1991.
For cigars and cigarillos it has doubled to 2.7 billion pieces.
The amount of taxed fine cut rose by 73.6 percent, and pipe tobacco quadrupled thanks to the shisha boom and the new tobacco vaporizers.
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