Smokin'

Flabergasted by the number of people who smoke here - googled some statistics:
Avg. French person consumes 2,058 cigs. a year, thats abt 6 a day :o
Its worse for Swizterland and Spain, where the number exceeds 2,500 anually per person.

India fares way better in comparision, with only 129 cigs. annually per person - though there is a catch, since about 7 Bidis are sold, behind every cigarette sold in India.

Ref:
1. WHO Stats.
2. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_tob_cig_con-health-tobacco-cigarette-consumption
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Edit :- dated 23.5.2007
England Quits Smoking. Keeping fingers crossed.
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Edit :- dated 01.6.2007
Disturbing US stats from NY Times say that

• 4.4 Crores Adults smoke
• 4 out of 5, are addicted and can't quite
• 4.4 lakhs smokers die every year
• taking another 50,000 passive smokers.