Pharmacy Daily | CDC tobacco report

THERE has been a sharp increase in the total adult consumption of pipe tobacco used for roll-your-own cigarettes since 2008, which has offset a decline in total cigarette consumption, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Total cigarette consumption continued an 11 year downward trend, declining 2.5% between 2010 and 2011, but “dramatic increases in non-cigarette smoked tobacco products have slowed the long decline in overall consumption,” the report says. Between 2000 and 2011 there was a 482% increase in consumption of pipe tobacco. And over the same period there was a 233% increase in sales of large cigars - largely due to tobacco manufacturers adding weight to many small cigars so they could be reclassified as “large” and thus avoid higher taxes and regulation “while at the same time retaining a size and shape very similar to cigarettes”.

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