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Economics
In 2000 the UK government earned £9,616 million in revenue from tobacco duty and VAT.
In high-income countries, healthcare costs related to smoking account for between 6 and 15 per cent of all annual costs.
The annual cost of smoking to the NHS in England alone is estimated to be £1,500 million.
The estimated cost of smoking related absence in Scotland is £40 million per annum.
In 2000, UK consumers spent £15.1billion on tobacco related products.
If a medium level smoker - 20 per day - were to quit they would save on average £1,144 a year.
Tobacco control need not damage the income or livelihoods of farmers.
A fall in tobacco consumption is unlikely to harm the economy.
Cessation therapies, including NRT, are extremely cost effective.
Smoking cessation interventions are more cost effective than many medical interventions.
Tobacco use is the USA results in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs.
Each pack of cigarettes sold in the USA costs the nation an estimated $7.18 in medical care costs and lost productivity.
Smokers are hospitalised more often than nonsmokers, and take more days off because of illness.
The European Union loses approximately €6 billion in revenue per year because of cigarette smuggling.
Consumption of just 1,000 tons of tobacco costs the worlds' annual economy US$200billion.
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Tobacco Industry
Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco and British American Tobacco are the world's three largest multinational cigarette companies. In 1998 their combined tobacco revenues were more than $88billion.
In addition to tobacco, cigarettes can contain up to 600 additives ranging from ammonia and arsenic to lead and formaldehyde.
Modern cigarette manufacturing machines use 4 miles of paper per hour.
Tobacco growers are susceptible to green tobacco sickness
Tobacco production is thought to be responsible for one in eight of all trees felled throughout the world.
Dependence on tobacco advertising revenue persuades editors and publishers to ignore the tobacco issue or to minimise its importance.
In developing countries that grow tobacco, production accounts for 5% of deforestation.
In the US, more than 3 million nonfarmers - or 2.6% of the workforce - work in the tobacco business.
The tobacco industry has yet to admit that passive smoking causes illness.
In 1995, the global tobacco industry produced an estimated 2,262 million kilograms of manufacturing waste and 209 million kilograms of chemical waste.
Cigarette butts accounted for almost one-fifth of all items collected in the International Coastal Cleanup Project.
In 1995, 5.535 trillion commercially manufactured cigarettes were consumed worldwide.
A third of annual global exports go to the contraband market.
The tobacco industry has known for decades that smokers must modify their behaviour when smoking ‘light cigarettes’.
The use of clear informative health warnings has been consistently opposed by the tobacco industry.
Smuggled cigarettes are sold at a reduced price and stimulate demand for international brands.
Tobacco advertising is used to recruit new smokers.
The tobacco industry earns approximately €50,000 from each new smoker.
The EU produces 4.5% of the worlds' total tobacco leaf production.
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