Tobacco Products (Global Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the global tobacco products industry. The paper gives a snapshot summary, with additional sections on the industry's development, organisation and structure, current conditions and its leading companies and countries.

Global Industry Overview: Tobacco Products

The tobacco industry produces the world's cigarettes, cigars, smoking and chewing tobacco, snuff, and reconstituted tobacco. Certain industry firms are also involved in the industrial processing side of the business, which includes stemming and re-drying tobacco.

Industry Snapshot

The tobacco products industry in the early twenty-first century was one of contrasts. In many Western countries consumption was falling, as it had done through the 1990s. The United States, for instance, was characterized by a particularly vocal and effective antismoking movement that helped bring down smoking rates and lobbied for increasing restrictions on smoking in public....

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