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Cigarettes a Micro Economic Analysis

Topics: Tobacco, Cigarette, Global Peace Index Pages: 7 (570 words) Published: August 21, 2013
6 Cigarette Consumption
“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

Annual cigarette consumption
ICELAND NORWAY
SWEDEN

FINLAND

per person 1998 or latest available data 2,500 and above
RUSSIAN FED.

ESTONIA

UNITED KINGDOM
IRELAND NETH. BELGIUM

DENMARK

1,500 – 2,499 500 – 1,499 1 – 499
RUSSIAN FEDERATION

GERMANY

POLAND
SLOVAKIA

BELARUS UKRAINE

CZECH REPUBLIC

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).

FRANCE

SWITZ.

AUSTRIA SLOVENIA CROATIA

HUNGARY ROMANIA
YUGOSLAVIA BULGARIA

REP. MOLDOVA

no data

C A N A D A
SPAIN PORTUGAL

ITALY

GREECE
KAZAKHSTAN

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MOROCCO ALGERIA

TUNISIA

MALTA
AR AZER M
TURKEY SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

UZBEKISTAN TURKMEN

KYRGYZSTAN
REP. KOREA

JAPAN C H I N A

TUNISIA MOROCCO BAHAMAS

ISRAEL WEST BANK & GAZA

IRAQ
JORDAN

ISL. REP. IRAN
KUWAIT

AFGHANISTAN

ALGERIA
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

MEXICO
CUBA JAMAICA BELIZE HONDURAS NICARAGUA COSTA RICA PANAMA HAITI

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

PAKISTAN

BAHRAIN

NEPAL

EGYPT SAUDI ARABIA
BANGLADESH

MAURITANIA

INDIA

LAO PDR THAILAND

Hong Kong SAR VIET NAM

China One in three cigarettes smoked in the world today are smoked in China.

GUYANA SURINAME

SIERRA LEONE

CÔTE D’IVOIRE LIBERIA

GHANA TOGO

China 1,643 billion

GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR

MALI
BARBADOS TRINIDAD & TOBAGO SENEGAL GAMBIA GUINEA-BISSAU BURKINA FASO

CHAD NIGERIA CAR
CAMEROON

SUDAN

PHILIPPINES

VENEZUELA COLOMBIA

ETHIOPIA
UGANDA KENYA

MALDIVES

SRI LANKA MALAYSIA SINGAPORE

ECUADOR

GABON CONGO

DEM. REP. CONGO

R B UNITED REP. TANZANIA

I N D O N E S I A

BRAZIL

ANGOLA
ZAMBIA MALAWI

Top 5 countries
Billions of cigarettes consumed 1998

PERU BOLIVIA

MADAGASCAR
ZIMBABWE MAURITIUS

India Seven bidis are sold for every one cigarette.

SOLOMON ISLANDS

CHILE

PARAGUAY

over
SOUTH AFRICA

MOZAMBIQUE
SAMOA

AUSTRALIA

FIJI

USA 451 billion

URUGUAY

ARGENTINA

cigarettes are smoked worldwide

billion

5,419 5,500

Rising numbers
4,388 Average number of manufactured cigarettes smoked per man per day in China 1996 1 4 10 15 NEW ZEALAND

everyday

Japan 328 billion

3,112

Russia 258 billion

Global cigarette consumption
Billions of sticks 1880–2000 1,000 600 10 20 50 100 300

2,150 1,686

Indonesia 215 billion

1952 1972 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000

1992

1996

30

1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940

31

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