Cigarette consumption CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
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Annual cigarette consumption
Cigarette Consumption
ICELAND
per person 1998 or latest available data
FINLAND NORWAY SWEDEN
“Short, snappy, easily attempted, easily completed or just as easily discarded before completion – the cigarette is the symbol of the machine age." New York Times, 1925
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RUSSIAN FED.
DENMARK
UNITED KINGDOM IRELAND NETH.
CZECH REPUBLIC
SWITZ.
FRANCE
500 – 1,499 1 – 499
UKRAINE SLOVAKIA REP. MOLDOVA
HUNGARY
AUSTRIA SLOVENIA
C A N A D A
1,500 – 2,499
BELARUS
POLAND
GERMANY
BELGIUM
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
ROMANIA
no data
CROATIA BULGARIA
YUGOSLAVIA
ITALY SPAIN PORTUGAL
GREECE KAZAKHSTAN
TUNISIA
MOROCCO
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
MALTA
UZBEKISTAN
ALGERIA
AR AZER M TURKEY
TUNISIA
BAHAMAS
LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA
ALGERIA
MEXICO CUBA
China 1,643 billion
GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR
JAMAICA BELIZE HONDURAS
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
ISRAEL WEST BANK & GAZA
MOROCCO
JORDAN
KYRGYZSTAN REP. KOREA
C H I N A
AFGHANISTAN
KUWAIT
PAKISTAN
BAHRAIN
BANGLADESH LAO PDR
INDIA
MAURITANIA
MALI
NICARAGUA
SENEGAL GAMBIA
BARBADOS
GUINEA-BISSAU
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
COSTA RICA
VENEZUELA
PANAMA
GUYANA SURINAME
SIERRA LEONE
COLOMBIA
THAILAND
CHAD
BURKINA FASO CÔTE D’IVOIRE
PHILIPPINES
NIGERIA ETHIOPIA
CAR
MALDIVES
SRI LANKA MALAYSIA
UGANDA KENYA
ECUADOR
Hong Kong SAR VIET NAM
SUDAN
CAMEROON
LIBERIA
GABON CONGO
DEM. REP. CONGO
SINGAPORE
R B UNITED REP. TANZANIA
BRAZIL
Top 5 countries
I N D O N E S I A
ANGOLA
PERU
ZAMBIA
Billions of cigarettes consumed 1998
MALAWI
MADAGASCAR ZIMBABWE
BOLIVIA
CHILE
PARAGUAY
China One in three cigarettes smoked in the world today are smoked in China.
NEPAL
EGYPT SAUDI ARABIA
HAITI
JAPAN
TURKMEN
ISL. REP. IRAN
IRAQ
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
GHANA TOGO
Global consumption of cigarettes has been rising steadily since manufactured cigarettes were introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. While consumption is levelling off and even decreasing in some countries, worldwide more people are smoking, and smokers are smoking more cigarettes. The numbers of smokers will increase mainly due to expansion of the world’s population. By 2030 there will be at least another 2 billion people in the world. Even if prevalence rates fall, the absolute number of smokers will increase. The expected continuing decrease in male smoking prevalence will be offset by the increase in female smoking rates, especially in developing countries. The consumption of tobacco has reached the proportions of a global epidemic. Tobacco companies are cranking out cigarettes at the rate of five and a half trillion a year – nearly 1,000 cigarettes for every man, woman, and child on the planet. Cigarettes account for the largest share of manufactured tobacco products, 96 percent of total value sales. Asia, Australia and the Far East are by far the largest consumers (2,715 billion cigarettes), followed by the Americas (745 billion), Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Economies (631 billion) and Western Europe (606 billion).
2,500 and above
ESTONIA
MAURITIUS
SOLOMON ISLANDS
India Seven bidis are sold for every one cigarette.
MOZAMBIQUE SAMOA
AUSTRALIA
USA 451 billion
ARGENTINA
5,419 5,500
Rising numbers 4,388
Japan 328 billion
3,112
Billions of sticks 1880–2000
NEW
Average number of manufactured cigarettes smoked per man per day in China 1996 1
Global cigarette consumption
Russia 258 billion
FIJI
SOUTH AFRICA
URUGUAY
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ZEALAND
10
15
1992
1996
2,150 1,686
1,000 Indonesia 215 billion
600 10
20
50
100
300
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1952 1972 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
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