Cigarette production continues to decline worldwide

As in the last five years, the world’s cigarette production has continued to decline in 2017: in comparison to 2012, the number of cigarettes produced was reduced by 500 billion units to a total of 5894 billion cigarettes worldwide – was said at the European Union’s Tobacco Association’s (Unitab) congress in Brussels.

One of the world’s leading tobacco retailer, the Universal Leaf Tobacco (ULT), says the absolute peak of the past twenty years is the year 2012, when a total of 6,595 billion cigarettes was produced by the tobacco manufacturers of the world. (MTI)