Smokers in Egypt consume $1.7b worth of cigarettes in nine months

According to new semi-official statistics, total cigarette sales in Egypt during the past nine months amounted to about 55 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.7 billion), with an increase of 4 billion pounds over the same period in 2022.

The Eastern Tobacco Company, said that the total revenues from selling cigarettes and smoking items, including taxes, during that period amounted to 54.827 billion pounds, compared to 51.466 billion in the same period of fiscal year 2022.