Selling almost two and a half trillion cigarettes (or sticks) in 2018, China had by far the largest cigarette retail market in the world. With just over 300 billion sticks sold, Indonesia ranked second that year.
Smokers by region
Given the large cigarette retail market in countries, such as China, Indonesia and Japan, it comes to no surprise that the Western Pacific Region has the highest number of tobacco smokers worldwide. In 2020, close to 400 million people within the region smoked tobacco. By 2025, the number of smokers in the Western Pacific Region, as well as globally, is projected to decrease slightly.
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