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It was estimated that nearly 5.8 trillion cigarettes were sold worldwide in 2006. If we share out this amount per capita then we will get the amazing result: every person in the world smoked nearly 860 cigarettes. It becomes very interesting to find out what is the Who is the smokiest smoker? state?

If you were asked to select the smokiest state from United States, China, Japan and Russia, on what state would you choose?

It is known that China is Mecca for smokers, because China is the heart of tobacco producing and has millions of residents, but … Euromonitor International estimated that namely Russia is the greatest consumer of cigarettes with 2,665 per each person of the four major countries listed above. States from former Soviet Union or Central/Eastern Europe have the greater part of tobacco consumers in the world.

The world leaders in tobacco consumption are Serbia and Montenegro, with 3,610 cigarettes per capita.

The United States have 1,272 per person so take the 31st place in the world.