The cigarette black market was in January 2023 at 8.1% of the total consumption, up by 1.3 percentage points compared to November 2022, when it was at 6.8%, registering the largest increase in the last two years, shows the data published by the research company Novel Research.
In 2021, tobacco companies transferred over 19.85 billion RON to the state budget, an increase of 13% compared to 2020.