US Cigarette Sales Down 28 Per Cent in 10 Years

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 11/21/2008

Cigarette consumption in the US has decreased by an estimated 28 percent, or 135 billion cigarettes, during the past decade, according to a PRNewswire report quoting 'new data from the federal government'. According to data from the Tobacco Tax Bureau of the US Treasury, the tobacco industry will have sold 344.4 billion cigarettes by the end of this year, down from 480.5 billion during 1997. Cigarette consumption fell between 2006 (379.5 billion) and 2007 (360.5 billion) by five per cent, the largest one-year percentage decrease in cigarette sales since 1999. The data and projections are based on calculations by the National Association of Attorneys General's Tobacco Project using Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau data combined with cigarette import data from US Customs. Enditem