--FILE - Ein chinesischer Mann raucht eine Zigarette in einem Teehaus in Hangzhou City, East China Zhejiang provinz, 31. Mai 2016. Die Menge der Tabak verkauft
--FILE--A Chinese man smokes a cigarette at a teahouse in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, 31 May 2016. The amount of tobacco sold in China fell in 2015 for the first time in more than 20 years, as a government health drive and rise in excise taxes began to take effect. China has long bucked the trend of falling tobacco volumes: in the past ten years, while worldwide sales have dropped 2 per cent, the amount of tobacco sold in China has increased 21 per cent to 2.5 trillion cigarettes a year. But after rising 2.4 per cent in 2014, Chinese tobacco consumption dropped 2.4 per cent in 2015, the first fall since 1995, according to data from Euromonitor. This is equivalent to a drop of about 60 billion cigarettes. Despite the fall, China still accounts for 45 per cent of all cigarettes smoked worldwide. More than half of all adult men smoke, according to the World Health Organisation, and one million a year die from tobacco-related illness.
