Could the Increase in Cigarettes Have Reduced Consumption?

The bombardment of hikes, which gained momentum in the last quarter of last year, has continued since 2022 began. As you may remember, citizens woke up to the huge hikes in natural gas and electricity on the first morning of the new year. Before even a week had passed, the historical increase in intercity buses had come. Both citizens and tradesmen continue to suffer from these hikes.

In addition, the increase of 47% in the ‘special consumption taxes’ of cigarettes and alcohol in the past few days has led to an increase in the reactions of the citizens. Well, could these reactions be reflected in the consumption rate? NG Research A study by whether they reduce researched.

There is not much difference in consumption:

In the study, which included 1768 citizens selected from all over Turkey on 4 and 6 January 2022. 47% smoker and 53% did not smoke. Participants who smoke 53% of it is at least one package a day Three out of four people said they drank after price hikes ‘They didn’t cut down on smoking’ it states.

On the other hand, another question posed to the participants was about how the Covid-19 epidemic affected cigarette consumption. Cigarette consumption after hikes said to reduce participants state that they smoked in the same way when the Covid-19 epidemic began. This means that the cigarette consumption rate of the participants not their health, shows that it is shaped by economic conditions. It was determined that half of the smokers spent more than 400 TL on cigarettes in a month.