This is a list of countries by annual per capita consumption of tobacco

Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...

 cigarettes.

Cigarettes are smoked by over 1.1 billion people. While smoking rates have leveled off or declined in developed nations, in developing nations tobacco consumption continues to rise at a rate of around 3.4% per annum.

Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by half from 1965 to 2006 falling from 42% to 20.8% of adults. There are large regional differences in smoking rates, with Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Mississippi topping the list, and Idaho, California and Utah at significantly lower rates.

In Australia the incidence of smoking is in decline, with figures from 2004-5 showing 23% of the population to be current smokers, a decline of 2% compared to 1995. Amongst the indigenous population, the rate is much higher, with 51% of men and 49% of women reported being current daily smokers. Young adults are the most likely age group to smoke, with a marked decline in smoking rates with increasing age. The prevalence of smoking is strongly associated with socioeconomic disadvantage [low earners], with over double the rate in the most disadvantaged quintile of the population as compared to the least.

List

Ranking	Country	Number of cigarettes per adult per year
1	Greece	3,017
2	Slovenia	2,537
3	Ukraine	2,526
4	Kingdom of Bulgaria	2,437
5	Czech Republic	2,368
6	Republic of Macedonia	2,336
7	Russia	2,319
8	Moldova	2,239
9	Spain	2,225
10	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,145
11	Armenia	2,083
12	Japan	2,028
13	Latvia	1,890
14	Independent State of Croatia	1,849
15	Belarus	1,846
16	Lebanon	1,837
17	Cyprus	1,830
18	Poland	1,810
19	Kazakhstan	1,805
20	Belgium	1,763
21	South Korea	1,733
22	Estonia	1,718
23	Switzerland	1,698
24	Austria	1,684
25	Mainland China	1,648
26	Hungary	1,623
27	Italy	1,596
28	Tunisia	1,532
29	Kuwait	1,509
30	Turkey	1,499
31	Denmark	1,495
32	Kingdom of Romania	1,480
33	Slovakia	1,430
34	Republic of Ireland	1,391
35	Trinidad and Tobago	1,337
36	Portugal	1,318
37	Malta	1,287
38	Albania	1,201
39	United States	1,196
40	Israel	1,173
41	Australia	1,130
42	Germany	1,125
43	United Arab Emirates	1,092
44	Azerbaijan	1,089
45	Egypt	1,082
46	Philippines	1,073
47	Syria	1,067
48	Georgia (country)	1,040
49	Kyrgyzstan	1,017
50	Argentina	1,014
51	Cuba	1,010
52	Indonesia	974
53	Paraguay	968
54	Finland	956
55	Lithuania	920
56	Chile	909
57	Canada	897
58	Netherlands	888
59	Vietnam	887
60	Early Modern France	876
61	Libya	860
62	Jordan	846
63	Mauritius	846
64	Uruguay	793
65	United Kingdom	790
66	Iraq	784
67	Iran	764
68	Sweden	751
69	North Korea	714
70	Saudi Arabia	648
71	Malaysia	646
72	Thailand	634
73	Venezuela	622
74	Brazil	580
75	Algeria	577
76	New Zealand	565
77	Costa Rica	552
78	Laos	544
79	South Africa	511
80	Hong Kong	499
81	Turkmenistan	496
82	Norway	493
83	Jamaica	480
84	Colombia	479
85	Mexico	470
86	Honduras	450
87	Cambodia	447
88	Morocco	430
89	Singapore	406
90	Angola	397
91	Pakistan	391
92	Nicaragua	386
93	Senegal	380
94	Dominican Republic	335
95	Guatemala	325
96	Uzbekistan	317
97	Yemen	317
98	Togo	306
99	Panama	291
100	Madagascar	276
101	El Salvador	275
102	Nepal	274
103	Ecuador	234
104	Mozambique	213
105	Myanmar	209
106	Sri Lanka	205
107	Côte d'Ivoire	198
108	Bolivia	178
109	Bangladesh	172
110	Kenya	167
111	Cameroon	141
112	Democratic Republic of the Congo	131
113	Peru	129
114	Tanzania	108
115	Nigeria	103
116	India	99
117	Zimbabwe	86
118	Ghana	80
119	Sudan	75
120	Zambia	71
121	Ethiopia	52

External links

• WHO Smoking Statistics