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by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 31 Tobacco exports, imports and smuggling

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Between 1983 and 1993, combined Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds international

cigarette sales increased from 329 billion to 634 billion "units." In the same time

period, domestic US sales from these two companies decreased from 493 to 335

billion cigarettes.

9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (Greg Connolly)

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US cigarettes now have 17.5% of the Japanese market. In 1993, 55.5 billion US

cigarettes were exported to Japan.

Time, April 18, 1994, p. 63 and US News, April18, 1994, p. 35

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Between 1985 and 1995, the market share of imported cigarettes increased from 2%

to 6% in South Korea, 2% to 21% in Japan, and zero to 22% in Taiwan.

World Watch, July-August 1997, p. 22

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Overall US cigarette exports increased 275% from 1985 to 1993. Exports to Japan

increased from 6.5 billion in 1985 to 56 billion in 1993; to South Korea from 1.3 billion

in 1987 to 4 billion in 1993; and to the former Soviet Union countries from 4.6 billion in

1991 to 13.6 billion in 1993.

Cancer Facts and Figures, 1994 (American Cancer Society)

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American cigarette sales to Japan grew from $76 million in 1985 to $606 million in

1988. In the same period, sales to Taiwan rose from $4.6 million to $119 million, and

to South Korea, from $2.1 to $5.6 million. Most of the increase came from US threats

to invoke retaliatory trade sanctions against countries that were considering excluding

American cigarettes.

Lancet, March 3, 1990, p. 528

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