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The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. [1] It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it can be farmed on all continents except Antarctica .
Tobacco sales generated 165 million dollars per year for Malawi, with tobacco making up 53 percent of Malawi's exports. [14] As the world demand for tobacco has decreased in the current decade, reducing producer and government revenues, the national economy has suffered since 2012. [15]
Number of pack-years = (packs smoked per day) × (years as a smoker) or. Number of pack-years = (number of cigarettes smoked per day/20) × number of years smoked. (1 pack has 20 cigarettes in some countries) Note that despite the unit being called a "pack-year," the actual unit is simply a number of packs (as noted above).
Cigarette smoking alone has cost the United States $96 billion in direct medical expenses and $97 billion in lost productivity per year, or an average of $4,260 per adult smoker. In 1964 the Surgeon General of the United States published its landmark report, Smoking and Health, which identified smoking as the cause of many health problems. [8]
In the developing world, tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4% per year as of 2002. [10] The WHO in 2004 projected 58.8 million deaths to occur globally, from which 5.4 million are tobacco-attributed, and 4.9 million as of 2007. [13] As of 2002, 70% of the deaths are in developing countries. [13]
The non-smoker may qualify for the Preferred class and pay around $26 per month. ... into a non-smoker rate category after a period of time — typically after being tobacco-free for at least a year.
Smoking area in Sidoarjo Station Tobacco factory in Sumatra Anti-tobacco protest in Jakarta There are approximately 61.4 million smokers in Indonesia , among a population of 273 million people. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Around 63% of men and 5% of women report smoking, equating to 34% of the population. [ 4 ]
Smoking in Mexico occurs at a rate of roughly 13% of the population, [1] and Mexico is ranked 130 in the world in annual cigarette consumption — a lower per capita cigarette consumption than Argentina, Brazil, or the US.