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The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. [1] It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it can be farmed on all continents except Antarctica .
At the peak of global tobacco production, there were 20 million rural Chinese households producing tobacco on 2.1 million hectares of land. [12] The vast majority of tobacco production is intended for the national market. While it is the major crop for millions of Chinese farmers, growing tobacco is not as profitable as cotton or sugar cane.
Tobacco by country — about the growing of tobacco and manufacturing of tobacco products by country. Subcategories. This category has the following 43 subcategories ...
Tobacco industry in the United States (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Tobacco industry by country" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Along with climate and corresponding types of vegetation, the economy of a nation also influences the level of agricultural production. Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products ...
In the developing world, tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4% per year as of 2002. [10] The WHO in 2004 projected 58.8 million deaths to occur globally, from which 5.4 million are tobacco-attributed, and 4.9 million as of 2007. [13] As of 2002, 70% of the deaths are in developing countries. [13]
English: World map of countries shaded according to their number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year, 2007. x = a n n u a l c o n s u m p t i o n o f c i g a r e t t e s p o p u l a t i o n {\displaystyle \mathrm {x} ={\frac {\mathrm {annual\ consumption\ of\ cigarettes} }{\mathrm {population} }}}
Around the peak of global tobacco production, 20 million rural Chinese households were producing tobacco on 2.1 million hectares of land. [46] While it is the major crop for millions of Chinese farmers, growing tobacco is not as profitable as cotton or sugarcane, because the Chinese government sets the market price.