Cigarette Production Drops by 3%, Study Reports
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
Cigarette production last year dropped about 3% to 643 billion cigarettes, an Agriculture Department report said last week.
“Domestic use fell, but exports rose,” the department’s Economic Research Service said. “U.S. smokers consumed 584 billion cigarettes in 1986, about 2% fewer than in 1985.”
Annual consumption dropped to a per capita average of 3,274 cigarettes--less than 164 packs of 20 cigarettes each--from 3,370, or more than 168 packs in 1985.
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