Development of price for cigarettes in Germany, 2001–2005; reference brand Marlboro
| Original pack, sold in retail | Pack sold in vending machines | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| price per pack | number per pack | price per cigarette | price per pack | number per pack | price per cigarette | Absolute price increase per cigarette in Cent | |||
| € | Eurocent | € | Eurocent | Original pack | Vending machine | Averaged† | |||
| *Price in Deutsche Mark was converted in Euro with official exchange rate (1 Euro = 1,95583 Deutsche Mark). | |||||||||
| †Estimated by 0.3 × price increase of vending machine packs + 0.7 × price increase of original pack. | |||||||||
| Prices were given by the “Bundesverband Deutscher Tabakwarengroβhändler und Automatenaufsteller” (Association of German tobacco wholesalers and vending machine operators) and verified by own investigation. | |||||||||
| Until December 2001* | 2.81 | 19 | 14.79 | 3.07 | 20 | 15.35 | |||
| 1.00 | 0.44 | 0.83 | |||||||
| Until December 2002 | 3.00 | 19 | 15.79 | 3.00 | 19 | 15.79 | |||
| 1.05 | 0.88 | 1.00 | |||||||
| Until March 2004 | 3.20 | 19 | 16.84 | 3.00 | 18 | 16.67 | |||
| 2.11 | 2.38 | 2.19 | |||||||
| Until December 2004 | 3.60 | 19 | 18.95 | 4.00 | 21 | 19.05 | |||
| 2.10 | 2.00 | 2.07 | |||||||
| Until September 2005 | 4.00 | 19 | 21.05 | 4.00 | 19 | 21.05 | |||
| 1.30 | 1.17 | 1.26 | |||||||
| Since September 2005 | 3.80 | 17 | 22.35 | 4.00 | 18 | 22.22 | |||