TOBACCO TRAVELLER – COLLECTION 2009 – CHILE
October 1st, 2009
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
Despite recent efforts by the Chilean government to discourage and reduce smoking, Chileans continue to be amongst the heaviest smokers in Latin America. In fact, the cigarette market in Chile expanded in 2008: Chileans purchased 14.78 billion cigarettes compared to 13.97 billion in 2007 according the United Nations Statistics Division.
The cigarette market in 2008 was valued at Euro 1.16 billion (US$1.72 billion), increased from Euro 980 million (US$1.5 billion) in 2007. Between 2003 and 2008 the cigarette market experienced a volume sales ...
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