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The time series for Germany includes a population weighted average for West and East Germany cigarette sales for the 1948-1989 period.

Manufactured cigarette sales per adult per day
Daily sales of manufactured cigarettes to people aged 15 and over.
Source
International Smoking Statistics (2016) – with major processing by
Last updated
May 30, 2024
Date range
1865–2015
Unit
cigarettes per adult per day

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P N Lee Statistics and Computing Ltd - International Smoking Statistics WEB Edition.
Barbara Forey, Jan Hamling, John Hamling, Alison Thornton, Peter Lee (2006-2016).

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International Smoking Statistics (2016) – with major processing by . “Manufactured cigarette sales per adult per day” [dataset]. Forey et al., “International Smoking Statistics” [original data]. Retrieved April 28, 2025 from /grapher/sales-of-cigarettes-per-adult-per-day