I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s a fantastic brand loyalty.

Warren Buffet

The biggest cigarette net importing country is Italy, followed by Japan United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Cambodia. Iraq, Spain, France, Iran and Libya complete the top 10.

Colour Key

North America

Central America

Caribbean

South America

Northern Europe

Central Europe

Eastern Europe

Southern Europe

Southern Africa

Northern Africa

Western Africa

Central Africa

Eastern Africa

Russia

Central Asia

Western Asia

Southern Asia

Eastern Asia

Australasia

Southeastern Asia

Pacific Oceania

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Technical Notes

Territory size is proportional to the cigarettes imported there in 2013.

Data sources
This map uses data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (last accessed April 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

All modification to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.