Fewer Cigarettes Have Been Produced In Bulgaria

Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | May 31, 2018, Thursday // 13:25
Bulgaria: Fewer Cigarettes Have Been Produced In Bulgaria IBTimes UK

The production of cigarettes in Bulgaria is smaller than ever before. If, in 2015, 26.9 billion pieces were produced in our country that worth 251 million euros, then in 2016 their number decreased to 21 billion, that worth 188 million euros. This shows Eurostat data published on May 31 - World No Tobacco Day.

Cigarette production across the EU decreased. In 2016 it was 527 billion cigarettes- 36 billion less than the previous year. And compared to a decade ago, the decline was one-third.

However in 2016 production is equivalent to over 1,000 cigarettes or about 50 packages with 20 cigarettes per inhabitant. The total production value was about 6.2 billion euros.

With almost 168 billion cigarettes produced, Germany was the top producer in 2016. Its cigarette production accounted for 32 percent of the EU total. In other words, one in every three cigarettes produced in the EU originated in Germany.

Poland ranked second (99 billion cigarettes produced in 2016, or 19 per cent of the EU total) and Romania third (77 billion, 15%). Greece (31 billion), Portugal (27 billion) and Bulgaria (21 billion) each had a share of five percent of the EU’s total production, Eurostat said.

Smoking has among the greatest health risks. Many serious diseases, cancer and not only are related to tobacco use.

 5.2 million deaths in the EU in 2015 and a quarter (1.3 million) of them were caused by cancer. 273,400 people died because of lung cancer, including trachea and bronchi, according to statistics. Most cases of lung cancer are in Hungary, Greece, Denmark, Poland and the Netherlands.

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