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Tobacco key facts and figures

Page last updated: 17 July 2014
Key facts and figures on tobacco sales, consumption and prevalence

Each year, smoking kills an estimated 15,000 Australians1 and costs Australia $31.5 billion2 in social (including health) and economic costs.
Tobacco sales

Recent figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that total consumption of tobacco and cigarettes in the March quarter 2014 is the lowest ever recorded, as measured by estimated expenditure on tobacco products:

• $5.135 billion in September 1959;
• $3.508 billion in December 2012; and
• $3.405 billion in March 2014.3

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/tobacco-kff