EU agrees to tax e cigarettes at higher rate Vaping The Guardian Big tobacco tax? Big whoop for vapers hereand even more incentive to stick to e cigarettes to get their nicotine hit. How much more resources will we need to spend on enforcement to Cigarette smokers in the European Union pay far more in excise taxes than they do for the cigarettes themselves. Our latest map illustrates the wide variance in cigarette excise taxes across EU WV taxes on e cigs are lower than cigarettes An overview of national level excise taxes on e cigarettes across the world What new tax would mean for tobacco and e cigarette users