Mexico: cost of a pack of Marlboro in Mexico City 2014-2019

The average cost of a pack of Marlboro cigarettes in Mexico City in 2019 was around 2.8 U.S. dollars, comparable to the price recorded in the previous three years. In comparison to 2014, however, Marlboro cigarettes in the Mexican capital dropped by approximately 15 percent that year.

Marlboro

In 2019, Marlboro was the leading cigarette brand in Mexico, accounting for more than half of the market. The brand is owned by the Swiss-American multinational Philip Morris, which that same year was worth more than 110 billion U.S. dollars, placing it at the top of the largest tobacco companies worldwide. Malboro is Philip Morris’s most popular brand, but it’s not the only one. The company also produces Delicados, L&M, and Benson & Hedges cigarettes, among others.

Smoking prevalence in Mexico

As the second most populated country in Latin America, Mexico is home to the second-largest smoking population in the region, only surpassed in both cases by Brazil. Nonetheless, the North American country ranks only for the seventh place in Latin America’s smoking prevalence ranking, overlaying Brazil but far behind countries like Chile, Cuba, and Suriname.