What's the Average Pouch Price And How Does It Compare To Cigarettes?

Nathan Chilcott

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What's the Average Pouch Price And How Does It Compare To Cigarettes? While it would be lovely to enjoy life without worrying about money or the cost of anything, the simple truth is that’s not how it works for most people. Many people live paycheck to paycheck and it matters what things cost. When you’re considering switching from cigarettes to nicotine pouches, you’re going to want to know the average nicotine pouch price and whether you’ll be better off or not.

"The nicotine pouch price, on average, is significantly lower than the cost of a cigarette."

Working Out The Price

Working out the price of your cigarettes seems fairly easy. Take the price of your packet and divide it by the number of cigarettes. Equally, you can take the price of a can of nicotine pouches and divide it by the number of pouches in the tin. However, you should also spare a moment to look at nicotine content and the weight of your pouch tin. The battle of pouches vs cigarettes may not be quite as straightforward as you think.

Average Prices

The average price of a pack of cigarettes in Europe is just €3. That doesn’t sound too bad.However, this figure is a lot lower than you’ll normally pay for cigarettes because the tax rate in the Czech Republic is so low. For example, according to Cigspot, the average price of a pack of cigarettes in Germany is between €6.50 and €7. You’ll have to check the price in your country then divide that by 20 to give you the price of one cigarette. If we split the averages above we can divide €5 by 20 to get a cost of 25 cents per cigarette. Let’s take a look at nicotine pouches. Take a quick look at our site and you’ll see the average price for a tin is between €4 and €5. That means the price per pouch is around 25 cents, the same as an individual cigarette. Of course, you can get them a lot cheaper if you buy a bulk deal:

So Cigarettes And Nicotine Pouches Cost the Same?

Appearances can be deceptive. On the face of it they are the same. However, everything is not as it seems. The average cigarette has between 1.1 and 1.8 mg of nicotine. A pack of 20 will give you approximately 22 to 36 mg of nicotine. In contrast, the average nicotine pouch has 10 mg of nicotine and you’ll absorb 3 mg of this. That means, one tin will give you 60 mg of nicotine, roughly twice what a packet of cigarettes does. In addition, a nicotine patch can last an hour (depending on the pouch and user). Even if you had them back to back a tin would last you around a day. In contrast, a cigarette lasts five minutes and you can easily smoke more than a packet a day.

Summing Up

The bottom line is simple. Even if the price of a cigarette is comparable to the price of a pouch, you’ll get a lot more for longer from the pouch, making it the cheaper option. It’s not even a close contest.