Facts about cigarettes

1. Although more people give up smoking, this vice produce the large amounts of money. From the last century, the number of smokers is declining, but only in 2009 the industry produced 614 billion dollars, according businessinsider.com. Here are some things less known about the tobacco industry and cigarette consumption in the world.

2. Global tobacco industry sells about 6,000 billion cigarettes a year and is one of the most concentrated industries in the world, where few companies control the entire international market. According to a study BAT, Phillip Morris International (PMI), controls 16% of the world market, followed by British American Tobacco (BAT) with 13% of the market. Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has 11% of the cigarette market, Imperial Tobacco and 6% of the market. PMI is headquartered in Switzerland, BAT and Imperial Tobacco UK center and JTI in Japan and Switzerland.

The fact that in developed countries such as U.S. cigarette consumption is declining, led the major tobacco manufacturers to expand into other markets, especially emerging countries such as Indonesia and Phillipine.

And China is a good option in this case, with a market cigarettes four times higher than in 1970.

A. People worldwide smoke 15 billion cigarettes each day and drink a billion cans of coke.

3. Countries where most smokers are: China, U.S., Indonesia, Russia, India, Turkey, Brazil, Japan, Ukraine, Italy and Korea.

4. All weight about 360 billion cigarettes smoked in one year alone Americans is equivalent to 350,000 cars VW Beetle brand.

5. Cigarette filters and cigarette represents 38% of garbage collected annually by the international service of cleaning the banks of the ocean (International Coastal Cleanup).

6. Every day, 3,450 Americans aged 12 and 17 smoke their first cigarette.

7. Imperial Tobacco Company, the fourth largest producer of cigarettes, owns more than half the Indian market. The company sells in this country about 98 billion cigarettes per year.

8. Every minute, around the world are sold about 10 million cigarettes.

9. Cultivation and marketing of tobacco contributes to 10% of Indonesia's income and provide millions of jobs.

10. In Britain, 12 times more people died from diseases caused by smoking than in The World War II.

11. A recent test showed that a lighted cigarette produces oil seven times faster than a car's exhaust.

12. Revenues of U.S. cigarettes, Reynolds American and Lorillard Altria Group, had revenues of about $ 1.4 billion last quarter of 2010.

13. Consumption of cigarettes is now seven times the 1990 level. A similar trend can be observed in other developing countries in Asia.

14. In China, the number of smokers has reached approximately 350 million, four times more than were in 1970. Chinese smokers consumed in 2009, 2,000 billion cigarettes, representing over 40% of total annual worldwide. Chinese tobacco market is controlled by the state through the National Tobacco Company in China.

15. Phillip Morris, the world's largest cigarette manufacturer, has over 75,000 employees worldwide.

16. Approximately 250 million women worldwide are smokers. Number of men cigarette consumption is around one billion.