page_title: Tobacco industry
section_title: Production by country or region
hierarchical_section_title: Tobacco industry / Production by country or region
caption_attribution_description: Map of tobacco production (average percentage of land used for its production times average yield in each grid cell) across the world compiled by the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment with data from: Monfreda, C., N. Ramankutty, and J.A. Foley. 2008. Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22: GB1022
context_page_description: The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it can be farmed on all continents except Antarctica. According to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control “tobacco industry” means tobacco manufacturers, wholesale distributors and importers
  of tobacco products; The treaty provides its 181 member states the duty of "In setting and implementing their public health policies with respect to tobacco control,
  Parties shall act to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of the
  tobacco industry in accordance with national law."
  Tobacco, one of the most widely used addictive substances in the world, is a plant native to the Americas and historically one of the half-dozen most important crops grown by American farmers.
context_section_description: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the following production of unprocessed tobacco by country/region in 2000. (Figures are in thousands of tonnes.)
caption: Map of tobacco production across the world
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