TOBACCO TRAVELLER – COLLECTION 2009 – SERBIA
November 1st, 2009
BY MARK ROWE
ACCORDING to World Health Organisation (WHO) data, 33% of women and 51% of men smoke in Serbia, and per capita consumption of cigarettes remained constant at around 80 packs per year between 2005 and 2009.
Sales of boxes of cigarettes have declined since 2004, but this trend accelerated in 2008 when 520,825,787 boxes were sold, a significant drop from 2007 when 573,297,364 were sold, according to the Serbian government statistics department. Manufacturing levels of cigarettes also dipped in 2008, with 19.150 billion sticks sold compared to 21.3 ...
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