Tuesday, 13 January 2009

T is for tobacco



1,122,200,000,000
 - Value in yen of Japan Tobacco's fag sales here last year
300 - the cost in yen of a pack of 20
66 - Japan Tobacco's percentage share of the domestic market
63 - percent of tax on a pack
50 - percent of the company owned by the government
33 - percentage of Japanese who smoke (50% men, 13.7% women)
1 - Lung cancer's ranking as a cause of death in Japan  (that's 103,152 people a year).

Figures from here and here and here.

1 comment:

TheGhost said...

Good old government hijacking of the `free` market.