Tobacco Fact File

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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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