Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what data they collect on the annual consumption of handmade cigars.

Currently there is no agreed definition of what constitutes a handmade cigar, therefore there is no Government data collected on their annual consumption.

However, there is data on cigar usage from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project which is produced every two years. In 2024 in England, of adults aged 18 years old or older who currently smoke or quit in the past two years or who currently use vapes, heated tobacco produces, and/or oral nicotine products, 5.1% reported past 30-day use of cigars.

Additionally, HM Revenue and Customs publishes data on clearances of tobacco products which relates to the amount of tobacco products cleared onto the United Kingdom’s market for sale. This data is published every month.