TableĀ 2

Number and share of packs with concordant characteristics of individual components of the Identification of an Illicit Pack (IIP)*. Pricing Policies and Control of Tobacco in Europe (PPACTE), 2010.

Total 4581: Self-reported purchase from illicit sources2: Inappropriate health warning3: Inappropriate tax stamp4: Extremelylow pricePacks with one single characteristic
1: Self-reported purchase from illicit sources296 (100.0%)194 (65.5%)150 (50.7%)80 (27.0%)76 (25.7%)
2: Inappropriate health warning312 (100.0%)194 (62.2%)185 (59.3%)72 (23.1%)67 (21.5%)
3: Inappropriate tax stamp230 (100.0%)150 (65.2%)185 (80.4%)60 (26.1%)30 (13.0%)
4: Extremely low price98 (100.0%)80 (81.6%)72 (73.5%)60 (61.2%)14 (14.3%)
  • *IIPs are those packs with at least one of the following characteristics: 1) self-reported purchase from illicit sources (purchase sources: illicit sources); 2) inappropriate health warning (health warning: foreign/absent and purchase sources: legal shops/vending machines/offered/illicit sources/missing); 3) inappropriate tax stamp (tax stamp: foreign/absent and purchase sources: legal shops/vending machines/offered/illicit sources/missing); or 4) extremely low price (purchase sources: legal shops/vending machines/illicit sources/missing and price of the latest pack of manufactured cigarettes lower than 70% of the lowest price of cigarettes in each country).