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.

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 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) ³⁾ is applied:

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

	average tobacco content
cigarette	1g
cigar	5g
EMEP/EEA GB 2023:

After declining to a historic low of 99,434 t in 2023, the quantity of consumed tobacco has increased slightly again in 2024:

Table 2: Annual amount of tobacco consumed, in [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 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 etimates result form slightly revised activity data for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023:

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