Manufacturing Tobacco





China is by far the largest cigarette manufacturer in the world, followed by the United States. Chinese cigarette production increased from 225 billion cigarettes annually in 1960 to over 1.7 trillion in 1995. The economic value of tobacco products is extremely high, totalling hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Tobacco companies are making more than five and a half trillion cigarettes per year. That's nearly 1,000 cigarettes for every man, woman and child. Cigarettes account for the largest share of manufactured tobacco products. There are other types of tobacco used in a variety of ways such as Shisha, cigars, chewing tobacco, and dry snuff.  While consumption of cigarettes are decreasing in certain countries, worldwide more people are smoking and consuming more cigarettes than ever. The number of smokers is mainly increasing due to the expansion of the world's population.





Source: "Cigarette Advertising." Web. 18 May 2011. <http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/cigarett_adv.html>.