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| | 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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