Money

For the price in local currency, the ISO 4217 currency names and code elements was used.

Purpose of this data collection is to monitor the price of tobacco and nicotine products. Monitoring prices of those products helps estimate the burden of applicable indirect/consumption taxes to those products. This also helps monitor change in affordability of those products over time.

Prices were collected of the

• most sold brand, premium brand and cheapest brand of cigarettes (pack of 20 sticks),
• the most sold brand of the most sold type of other smoked tobacco product (20 grams or 1 piece, as indicated),
• the price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of smokeless tobacco product (20 grams),
• the most sold brand of heated tobacco product - HTP (20 sticks),
• the cheapest brand of e-liquid of a closed rechargeable electronic nicotine delivery or non-nicotine delivery systems - ENDS/ENNDS (1 ml),
• the cheapest brand of e-liquid of a closed disposable ENDS/ENNDS system (1 ml),
• the cheapest brand of e-liquid of an open ENDS/ENNDS system (10 ml).

Primary collection of price data in this report involved surveying two types of retail outlets from the capital city of each country, defined as follows:

• Supermarket/hypermarket: chain or independent retail outlets with a selling space of over 2500 square metres and a primary focus on selling food/beverages/tobacco and other groceries. Hypermarkets also sell a range of non-grocery merchandise.
• Kiosk/newsagent/tobacconist/independent food store: small convenience stores, retail outlets selling predominantly food, beverages and tobacco or a combination of these (e.g. kiosk, newsagent or tobacconist) or a wide range of predominantly grocery products (independent food stores or independent small grocers).

Prices were collected in the local currency in each country. The prices were also converted in international dollars at purchasing power parity (PPP) using the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s World Economic Outlook implied PPP conversion rates for 2022. Prices were also converted in US$ at official exchange rate using IMF’s exchange rate conversion of national currency per US$, end of period data for July 2022.

• Price of the most sold brand of a pack of cigarettes in local currency
• Price of the most sold brand of a pack of cigarettes in international dollars
• Price of the most sold brand of a pack of cigarettes in US$ at official exchange rate

• Price of a premium brand of a pack of cigarettes in local currency
• Price of a premium brand of a pack of cigarettes in international dollars
• Price of a premium brand of a pack of cigarettes in US$ at official exchange rate

• Price of the cheapest brand of a pack of cigarettes in local currency
• Price of the cheapest brand of a pack of cigarettes in international dollars
• Price of the cheapest brand of a pack of cigarettes in US$ at official exchange rate

• Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of other smoked tobacco product in local currency
• Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of other smoked tobacco product in international dollars
• Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of other smoked tobacco product in US$ at official exchange rate

• Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of smokeless tobacco product in local currency
• Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of smokeless tobacco product in international dollars
• Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of smokeless tobacco product in US$ at official exchange rate

• Price of the most sold brand of heated tobacco product in local currency
• Price of the most sold brand of heated tobacco product in international dollars
• Price of the most sold brand of heated tobacco product in US$ at official exchange rate

• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of a closed rechargeable ENDS/ENNDS system in local currency
• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of a closed rechargeable ENDS/ENNDS system in international dollars
• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of a closed rechargeable ENDS/ENNDS system in US$ at official exchange rate

• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of a closed disposable ENDS/ENNDS system in local currency
• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of a closed disposable ENDS/ENNDS system in international dollars
• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of a closed disposable ENDS/ENNDS system in US$ at official exchange rate

• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of an open ENDS/ENNDS system in local currency
• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of an open ENDS/ENNDS system in international dollars
• Price of the cheapest brand of e-liquid of an open ENDS/ENNDS system in US$ at official exchange rate

Prices provided in different quantities (or volume sizes for e-liquids) were standardized to:

• 20 sticks for cigarettes and HTPs
• 20 grams for smokeless tobacco and some types of other smoked tobacco (for other smoked tobacco like cigar, the quantity was standardized to 1 piece).
• 1 ml for e-liquid of closed rechargeable and disposable ENDS/ENNDS systems.
• 10 ml for e-liquid of an open ENDS/ENNDS system.

Prices in local currency were divided by the IMF’s World Economic Outlook implied PPP conversion rates for 2022 for the conversion in international dollars at purchasing power parity (PPP).

Prices in local currency were also divided by the IMF’s exchange rate conversion of national currency per US$ end of period data for July 2022 for the conversion in US$ at official exchange rates.

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Anne-Marie Perucic

In most countries, national level brand-specific price statistics were not available, thus the retail price data were collected from one supermarket/hypermarket or kiosk/newsagent/tobacconist/independent food store usually in the capital city of the country (where survey respondents were mostly located), therefore potentially not being nationally representative.