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Table 1 Comparison of cigarette consumption, retail prices and gross national income from 2005 to 2014 in the European Union

From: The effects of a rise in cigarette price on cigarette consumption, tobacco taxation revenues, and of smoking-related deaths in 28 EU countries-- applying threshold regression modelling

Countries

Per capita legal cigarette consumption of population aged over 15 (No. cigs)

Real retail price of a pack of legal cigarettes (US$)

Real GNI per capita (US$)

Consumer price index (2005 = 100)

The number of MPOWER measures at the highest level of achievement in 2014

Share of total taxes in the retail price in 2014

2005

2014

Change (2005 ~ 2014)

2005

2014

Change (2005 ~ 2014)

2005

2014

Change (2005 ~ 2014)

Austria

1688

1631

−3.38%

3.27

4.59

40.37%

38,500

41,765

8.48%

1

74.00%

Belgium

1156

966

−16.44%

4.5

5.24

16.44%

37,850

39,561

4.52%

2

75.92%

Bulgaria

2750

1282

−53.38%

0.8

1.6

100.00%

3760

5261

39.92%

2

82.65%

Croatia

1735

1330

−23.34%

1.69

2.74

62.13%

9870

10,471

6.09%

0

75.26%

Czech Republic

2183

1720

−21.21%

1.77

2.79

57.63%

12,380

15,246

23.15%

1

77.42%

Cyprus

1371

1400

2.12%

2.06

2.72

32.04%

21,490

22,597

5.15%

0

77.47%

Denmark

1472

1080

−26.63%

4.06

5.15

26.85%

49,620

52,632

6.07%

2

74.75%

Estonia

1481

1480

−0.07%

1.25

2.27

81.60%

9710

13,436

38.37%

1

77.24%

Finland

954

789

−17.30%

4.05

5.44

34.32%

40,100

40,954

2.13%

1

81.53%

France

898

682

−24.05%

5

7.07

41.40%

36,000

37,487

4.13%

1

80.3%

Germany

1175

980

−16.60%

4.49

5.23

16.48%

35,880

41,335

15.20%

1

72.9%

Greece

3016

1552

−48.54%

2.46

3.3

34.15%

22,510

18,212

−19.09%

2

79.95%

Hungary

1366

936

−31.48%

1.52

1.88

23.68%

10,430

9202

−11.77%

1

77.26%

Ireland

1364

685

−49.78%

6.01

9.04

50.42%

44,500

32,362

−27.28%

3

77.8%

Italy

1569

1147

−26.90%

3.57

4.9

37.25%

32,390

29,248

−9.70%

1

75.68%

Latvia

2089

892

−57.30%

0.81

2.02

149.38%

7360

10,293

39.85%

1

76.89%

Lithuania

1079

965

−10.57%

1.26

2.42

92.06%

7550

11,421

51.27%

1

75.76%

Luxembourg

1110

854

−23.06%

4.57

4.63

1.31%

70,340

62,685

−10.88%

1

70.24%

Malta

1661

1048

−36.91%

2.76

3.77

36.59%

14,380

19,645

36.61%

2

74.63%

Netherlands

837

659

−21.27%

3.13

5.92

89.14%

42,390

43,804

3.34%

2

73.4%

Poland

1926

1136

−41.02%

1.17

2.52

115.38%

7330

10,858

48.13%

1

80.29%

Portugal

1754

852

−51.43%

2.29

4.62

101.75%

18,550

18,342

−1.12%

1

74.51%

Romania

1604

1501

−6.42%

0.23

0.55

139.13%

3930

6190

57.51%

1

75.41%

Slovakia

1136

1381

21.57%

1.26

1.83

45.24%

11,280

14,410

27.75%

1

81.54%

Slovenia

2281

2098

−8.02%

1.54

2.47

60.39%

18,440

19,217

4.21%

1

80.41%

Spain

2212

911

−58.82%

2.79

4.09

46.59%

25,930

24,424

−5.81%

3

78.09%

Sweden

2212

666

−69.89%

4.93

6.37

29.21%

45,350

54,339

19.82%

1

68.84%

United Kingdom

843

568

−32.62%

7.87

9.48

20.46%

41,150

34,194

−16.90%

3

82.16%