People light up fewer cigarettes these days, but the number of cigars and the amount of pipe tobacco used for roll-your-owns smoked each year is on the rise. And, while the total amount of tobacco consumption continues to drop, that decline is slowing. Between 2010 and 2011, tobacco use dropped by less than 1%. The reason may be economical, at least in part, as industry has figured out ways around taxes meant to discourage smoking.
“The data suggest that certain smokers have switched from cigarettes to other combustible tobacco products, most notably since a 2009 increase in the federal tobacco excise tax that created tax disparities between product types,” write the authors of the report, part of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for Aug. 3.
Changing Habits
Smokers puffed on more than 435 billion cigarettes in 2000. By last year, that number had dropped by a third, to less than 300 billion. Those same 11 years, however, also saw non-cigarette tobacco consumption more than double, from about 15 billion cigarette equivalents to just under 34 billion, a 123% rise.
More than other forms of tobacco, smokers really took to pipe tobacco for roll-your-owns. The CDC report estimates that consumption of such tobacco increased by almost 500% between 2000 and 2011. Pipe tobacco, the report states, shot up in popularity after a 2009 excise tax increased the price of cigarette-equivalent roll-your-own tobacco. That price hike, the authors suggest, contributed to a 573% increase in pipe tobacco consumption between 2008 and 2011.
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