Dutch tobacco tourism is increasing, in Germany there is now even special depot right across the border: “Such a difference is not normal, is it?”

A tobacco depot in the Germany Am Rhein, which is specially opened for Dutch people, symbolizes a trend. In the first quarter of 2025, no less than 59 percent of all Shag packages and 40 percent of all cigarettes that were smoked in the Netherlands came from abroad. “99 percent of my customers here are Dutch.”

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