2.G(b) - Other Product use: Tobacco

In this sub-category, Germany reports the emissions from the smoking of cigarettes and cigars.

Statistical data from the tax registration of sold tobacco, cigarettes and cigars provide by the Federal Statistical Office (DESTATIS) ^{1) 2)} are used as activity data.

For the calculation of the overall consumption quantity of tobacco the default quantity of tobacco for cigarettes and cigars of the emission guidebook 2023 (note to table 3-15 p. 23) ³⁾ is applied: a cigarette contains 1 g of tobacco and a cigar contains 5 g of tobacco.

The quantity of consumed tobacco has decreased in 2023 for the second consecutive year to a historical low value of 99,434 t.

The emission factors applied in the German inventory were derived from a study by (Toenges-Schuller et al.)⁴⁾ for the Umweltbundesamt Germany. Based on this study, most of the applied emission factors represent average values from different studies.

Table 1: tier2 emission factors applied

As tax registration statistics has a high level of accuracy, its uncertainty is expected to be below 5% whereas the uncertainty for the amount of tobacco in cigarettes is set to 20%. In contrast, as the tobacco quantity for cigars varies much stronger, the uncertainty is set to 100% here.