On top of this government taxes now take almost 50% of the final price plus the VAT and in some cases a small percentage is used for health insurances
Popular brands and key players (Euromonitor data): This market is dominated by Big Tobacco companies, which control around 88% of the market, with Philip Morris Internationals IQOS making up over 68% alone
Compared with the control group (little or no smoking cessation treatment), 12 more people out of 100 who received brief treatment, and 46 more people out of 100 who underwent intensive treatment, had stopped smoking at the time of their surgeries (6)
While lung cancer is the biggest threat, smoking is also linked to cancer of the mouth, throat, bladder, kidney, larynx, and stomach, as well as cervical and pancreatic cancer