Globally, about 5.5 trillion cigarettes are produced each year — more than two cigarettes per person per day. China is the largest producer of cigarettes — in 2004, China produced 1.79 trillion cigarettes. The United States, by contrast, produced about 499 billion that year.

It's not a smoke screen:

• About 1.3 billion people worldwide smoke.
  
  
• About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily — that's about 10 million per minute.
  
  
• More men than women smoke — worldwide, about 1/3 of the adult male population smokes.
  
  
• Tobacco kills about one in 10 adults each year — about 5 million people.
  
  
• Someone dies from tobacco use every eight seconds.
  
  
• In 2007, the international coastal cleanup by the Ocean Conservancy picked up 1,971,551 cigarette butts, which are the most common debris collected.

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anon220175 Post 3	China is encouraging people to smoke.
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