Tobacco Industry

Definition: Tobacco Industry

Tobacco Industry

Noun

1. An industry that manufactures and sells products containing tobacco.

Specialty Definition: Tobacco Industry

Domain	Definition
Health	The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Tobacco industry

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The manufacture of cigarettes is dominated by giant firms and state-owned tobacco monopolies.

Largest Tobacco Companies

COMPANY GLOBAL MARKET SHARE (%) 1999 TOBACCO SALES ($BIL)

China National Tobacco Co (CNTC) 32.7 $0.023

Philip Morris Cos (USA) 17.3 $47

British American Tobacco PLC (BAT, UK) 16.0 $30.4

Japan Tobacco 9.0 $29.9

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (USA) 2.0 $7.6

Reemtsma (Germany) 2.0

Altadis (France and Spain) 2.0

PT Gudang Garam (Indonesia) 1.4

TEKEL (Turkey) 1.3

ITC (India) 1.0

Fortune Tobacco Co (Philippines) .9

Eastern Company (Egypt) .8

Thailand Tobacco monopoly .8

Lorillard Tobacco Co (USA) .7

(2000, Euromonitor, Tara Parker-Pope)

Largest Tobacco Companies
COMPANY	GLOBAL MARKET SHARE (%)	1999 TOBACCO SALES ($BIL)
China National Tobacco Co (CNTC)	32.7	$0.023
Philip Morris Cos (USA)	17.3	$47
British American Tobacco PLC (BAT, UK)	16.0	$30.4
Japan Tobacco	9.0	$29.9
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (USA)	2.0	$7.6
Reemtsma (Germany)	2.0
Altadis (France and Spain)	2.0
PT Gudang Garam (Indonesia)	1.4
TEKEL (Turkey)	1.3
ITC (India)	1.0
Fortune Tobacco Co (Philippines)	.9
Eastern Company (Egypt)	.8
Thailand Tobacco monopoly	.8
Lorillard Tobacco Co (USA)	.7
(2000, Euromonitor, Tara Parker-Pope)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tobacco industry."

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Crosswords: Tobacco Industry

Specialty definitions using "tobacco industry": BLENDING SUPERVISOR, BOOKING PRIZER ♦ caser helper, cellophane-wrapping examiner, CIGARETTE-PACKAGE EXAMINER, COOKING, CASING, AND DRYING SUPERVISOR ♦ DISTRIBUTOR-CLEANER ♦ FILLER-SHREDDER HELPER, filler-shredding-machine loader, filler-sifter helper, floor hand ♦ LEAF-CONDITIONER HELPER ♦ meerschaum ♦ North American Industry Classification System ♦ package reinspector, packing-machine inspector ♦ shed boss, slice-cutting-machine-operator helper, SLICE-PLUG-CUTTER-OPERATOR HELPER, SUPERVISOR OF SALES, SUPERVISOR, CIGAR MAKING, HAND, SUPERVISOR, CIGAR TOBACCO PROCESSING, SUPERVISOR, CURING ROOM, SUPERVISOR, FIELD-CROP FARMING, SUPERVISOR, LUMP ROOM, SUPERVISOR, PICKING, supervisor, rolling room, SUPERVISOR, SHED WORKERS, SUPERVISOR, THRESHING DEPARTMENT ♦ TICKET PULLER ♦ WAREHOUSE TRAFFIC SUPERVISOR, WRAPPING MACHINE HELPER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Tobacco Industry

Domain	Title
Books	A Smoking Gun: How the American Tobacco Industry Gets Away With Murder (reference) Civil Warriors: The Legal Siege on the Tobacco Industry (reference) History of the tobacco industry in Virginia from 1860 to 1894 (reference) Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (reference) The Tobacco Industry Wheezing or Breezing?: Wheezing or Breezing (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Tobacco Industry

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Moldova	Tobacco Industry: The tobacco industry remains an important contributor to the state budget. (references)
	Zambia	US$5 million earned in 1999. Resulting from a rise in prices, the tobacco industry recorded export profits worth more than US$13.2 million in the1999/2000 season. (references)
	Moldova	In July, the Parliament passed legislation to privatize the tobacco industry and a number of wineries, removing one of the key impediments to the resumption of external financial assistance. (references)
Minorities	Bulgaria	In addition, ethnic Turks are represented on the boards of government-owned companies, such as Bulgartabak Holding, which is involved in the tobacco industry. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tobacco Industry

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
tobacco industry	84
tobacco industry lawsuit	2
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Modern Translation: Tobacco Industry

Language		Translations for "tobacco industry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Portuguese		indústria de fumo. (various references)

Spanish		industria de tabaco. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tobacco Industry

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-d-i-n-o-o-r-s-t-t-u-y"
	-4 letters: buccinators, contradicts, coruscation, obscurantic, obscuration, obstruction, obturations, subcontract, subtraction, tobacconist.
	-5 letters: abductions, accordions, astrocytic, bandicoots, buccinator, cartoonist, concordats, conductors, contradict, corybantic, cryostatic, incubators, incubatory, obturation, orotundity, syndicator.
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