Key Facts


The cigarette market in the EU totals the consumption of 672 billion cigarettes(1), generating 72 billion Euros in government excise tax revenues(2).

CECCM member companies operate in all 27 Member States of the EU.

CECCM members represent 54% of the total EU cigarette market(3).

CECCM member companies employ some 40.000 people in the EU and have 23 manufacturing opera-tions across the EU(4).
(1) Cigarettes released for consumption according to the“Impact Assessment on the Proposal for a COUCIL DIRECTIVE amending Council directive 95/59/EC, 92/79/EEC and 92/80/EEC on the structure and the rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco - SEC(2008) 2266”.
(2) DG TAXUD excise duty tables (tax receipts-manufactured tobacco, VAT excluded, pages 5, 6, 7 and 8 data of 2008).
(3 and 4) CECCM member companies estimates for 2008, EU 27.
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