Cigarettes a Micro Economic Analysis
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
“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