Cigarette production grows strongly in Armenia in eleven months

Panorama, Armenia

Jan 4 2019

Armenia saw a strong growth in tobacco production in the first eleven months of 2018, the latest official statistics show.

The country produced a total of 27,686,900 units of cigarettes from January to November last year, up by 11.3% from the same period of 2017, when the output stood at 24,867,500 units, Panorama.am learnt from the Statistical Committee of Armenia.

The cigarette production share in process manufacturing now makes up 15.1% in Armenia due to the registered growth.

According to statistics, more than 50% of Armenian men and almost 4% of women above 16 years of age are smokers.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS