Beijing launches cigarette smoking ban

Cigarette consumption is still on the rise with about 5.8 trillion cigarettes* smoked worldwide in 2014. China and Eastern and Southern Europe consume the most cigarettes per person

Cigarettes smoked per person per year (age 15 years or older, 2014)
Montenegro
Belarus
Lebanon
Macedonia
Russia
Slovenia
Belgium
Luxembourg
China
Bosnia Herz.
Czech Rep.
Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan
Greece
South Korea
Austria
Jordan
Ukraine
Estonia
4,124.53
3,830.62
3,023.15
2,732.23
2,690.33
2,637.03
2,353.28
2,283.55
2,249.79
2,233.46
2,194.01
2,156.59
2,114.33
2,086.09
2,072.57
1,987.52
1,855.05
1,853.66
1,774.60

*5.8 trillion = 5,800,000,000,000. Estimates are of legally sold machine-made and roll-your-own cigarette consumption 

CHINA

Population 1.39 billion (2014)

Smokers: 284,837,000

One in five Chinese

Average: 6 cigarettes per day

Every year 1,384,200 people are killed by tobacco-caused disease in China. Equivalent to one person dying every 23 seconds

Sources: Euromonitor International, The Tobacco Atlas