World map of countries by number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year

This is a list of countries by annual per capita consumption of tobacco 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.[1]

Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by half from 1965 to 2006 falling from 42% to 20.8% of adults.[2]. 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.[3]

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, with over double the rate in the most disadvantaged quintile of the population as compared to the least. [4]

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Ranking Country Number of cigarettes per adult per year
1   Greece 3,017
2   Slovenia 2,537
3   Ukraine 2,526
4   Bulgaria 2,437
5   Czech Republic 2,368
6   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   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   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   Romania 1,480
33   Slovakia 1,430
34   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 1,040
49   Kyrgyzstan 1,017
50   Argentina 1,014
50   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   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
96   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   Ivory Coast 198
108   Bolivia 178
109   Bangladesh 172
110   Kenya 167
111   Cameroon 141
112   DR 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

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