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

In this sub-category, Germany reports the emissions from the smoking of cigarettes, small cigars (zigarillos) and cigars.
PM_2.5, PM₁₀, TSP and BC have only been reported since 1995.

The quantity of consumed tobacco has been for many years on a constant level. Since 2002 it has been decreased to a historic low value of 99,434 t in 2023. In 2024 again more tobacco was consumed.

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

For estimating the overall consumption quantity of tobacco the default quantity of tobacco for cigarettes and cigars of the emission EMEP/EEA Guidebook 2023 (note to table 3-15 p. 23) ²⁾ is applied:

Table 1: average tobacco contents from EMEP/EEA GB 2023, in [g/No.]

The emission factors applied in the German inventory were derived from a study by (Toenges-Schuller et al.)³⁾ for the Umweltbundesamt Germany. Based on this study, most of the applied emission factors represent average values from different studies.

Table 3: 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.

Recalulated emission estimates result from changes of the used statistical data. For the year 2023 the data was slightly revised, but for the years 2021 and 2022 the statistical data is only published with less accuracy.

Table 4: Revised activity data for 2021, 2022 and 2023, in [t]