What countries have the highest cigarette consumers?

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Everyone knows that cigarette smoking is addictive and harmful for health. Thousands of lives are lost every year due to the ill-effects of smoking. Despite this, a significant percentage of the world’s population is addicted to cigarettes. In the year 2014, an estimated 5.8 trillion cigarettes were smoked around the world. Of the estimated one billion smokers in 2014, 800 million were men and the rest women.

Meanwhile, a few nations have managed to cut down on the consumption of cigarettes. Nations such as Australia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, etc., have tight tobacco control laws that have helped in lessening its peoples’ reliance on cigarettes. Barring a few such achievements, the overall trend is alarming.

However, there are disparities between nations, with some witnessing massive amounts of cigarette consumption while in others its usage is minimal. People in the European nation of Montenegro love to smoke. According to a data by the Tobacco Atlas, Montenegro ranked at the top of the list among cigarette consuming nations. In 2014, a whopping 4124.53 cigarettes were consumed per adult (per year) in Montenegro. Belarus, which was at the number two spot, witnessed 3831.62 cigarettes being consumed per person in 2014.

Cigarette smoking per person was also high in countries such as Lebanon, Macedonia, Russia, Slovenia, Belgium, China, Kazakhstan, etc. All these nations saw an upwards of 2000 cigarettes being consumed per person in 2014. The United States witnessed 1083.41 cigarettes consumed per person in 2014. The United Kingdom consumed less cigarettes at 826.13 per adult.

Apart from this, cigarette consumption was low or relatively low in Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Somalia, Myanmar, Syria and other nations where it was less than 500 per person in 2014.

Meanwhile, the African nation of Guinea earns the laurels for having a population that smokes the least among the countries listed on the Tobacco Atlas data. As per the data, only 14.96 cigarettes were consumed per adult in the country in the year 2014.

For a clear understanding on the number of cigarettes smoked per person in 2014, refer to the table below.

Country	Number of Cigarettes Consumed (2014)
Montenegro	4124.53
Belarus	3831.62
Lebanon	3023.15
Macedonia	2732.23
Russia	2690.33
Slovenia	2637.03
Belgium	2353.28
Luxembourg	2283.55
China	2249.79
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2233.46
Czech Republic	2194.01
Kazakhstan	2156.59
Azerbaijan	2114.33
Greece	2086.09
Korea, South	2072.57
Austria	1987.52
Jordan	1855.05
Ukraine	1853.66
Hungary	1774.6
Estonia	1758.63
Japan	1713
Croatia	1709.3
Serbia	1687.56
Cyprus	1643.67
Switzerland	1633.86
Tunisia	1628.46
Romania	1619.82
Slovakia	1617.59
Turkey	1580.91
Armenia	1545.13
Kuwait	1517.26
Bulgaria	1504.72
Germany	1480.04
Italy	1442.87
Poland	1396.06
Netherlands	1395.97
Saudi Arabia	1395.14
Cuba	1391.98
Georgia	1378.45
Denmark	1378.23
Argentina	1359.4
Israel	1346.21
Libya	1332.77
Indonesia	1322.3
Philippines	1291.08
Malta	1266.14
Spain	1264.74
Vietnam	1226.92
Egypt	1215.3
Iraq	1187.65
Albania	1177.42
Canada	1154.25
Uruguay	1135.16
Lithuania	1123.86
Portugal	1114.11
Moldova	1112.8
United States of America	1083.41
Finland	1082.87
Algeria	1041.18
Latvia	1024.09
France	1022.88
Brunei	992.81
Bahrain	968.68
Australia	957.2
Mongolia	955.72
Ireland	953.66
Chile	929.55
Thailand	925
Turkmenistan	895.24
Sweden	868.89
Iran	835.51
Laos	831
Namibia	827.48
United Kingdom	826.13
Papua New Guinea	740.25
United Arab Emirates	715.01
Qatar	697.73
Kyrgyzstan	682.83
Morocco	679.95
New Zealand	671.12
Singapore	664.98
Bangladesh	651.63
Equatorial Guinea	649
Cambodia	644.99
Fiji	617.69
Jamaica	609.67
Korea, North	592.95
Seychelles	589.66
Malaysia	583.67
Oman	576.55
Venezuela	572.84
Uzbekistan	565.39
Gabon	559.05
Norway	556.04
Iceland	551.36
South Africa	537.03
Tajikistan	533.04
Cape Verde	514.86
Pakistan	510.59
Brazil	503.9
Senegal	491.78
Honduras	489.01
Angola	488.8
Nicaragua	487.84
Cote D’Ivoire	477.01
Djibouti	475.89
Syria	458.63
Botswana	448.81
Costa Rica	432.33
Sudan	427.75
Swaziland	427.08
Belize	400.1
South Sudan	398.48
Yemen	388.23
Antigua	361.63
Barbuda	361.63
Colombia	359.39
	345.32
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	338.29
Barbados	333.09
Mexico	329.26
Sri Lanka	322.44
Sierra Leone	309.58
Bahamas	301.22
Bolivia	299.49
Congo (Brazzaville)	293.84
Comoros	289.42
El Salvador	280.35
Mauritius	261.4
Kenya	256.57
Togo	249.85
Dominican Republic	245.36
Mali	236.09
Saint Lucia	231.55
Grenada	224.33
Panama	224.27
Maldives	215.42
Burkina Faso	213.2
Madagascar	205.82
Burma	205.55
Ecuador	190.98
Guatemala	189.5
Cameroon	184.17
Central African Republic	177.76
Guinea-Bissau	174.84
Nigeria	172.68
Paraguay	166
Gambia, The	165.93
Zambia	164.55
Chad	156.31
Bhutan	155.09
Mauritania	134.92
Zimbabwe	133.53
Benin	122.1
Ghana	120.85
Somalia	116.66
Peru	116.33
Haiti	113.93
Eritrea	113.58
India	110.93
Sao Tome and Principe	110.65
Niger	105.36
Liberia	104.36
Tanzania	101.12
Burundi	97.73
Trinidad and Tobago	97.03
Lesotho	87.69
Afghanistan	83.81
Nepal	83
Mozambique	81.71
Tonga	81.07
Malawi	80.02
Suriname	79.24
Guyana	76.58
Vanuatu	76.2
Ethiopia	75.8
Congo (Kinshasa)	74.39
Samoa	54.21
Rwanda	53.24
Uganda	41.08
Kiribati	28.03
Solomon Islands	26.42
Guinea	14.96

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