Top 10 Biggest Tobacco Companies in the World in 2017

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8. ITC Limited

Score: 7

Created in 1910 as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India, ITC Limited is an Indian company with the headquarters in Kolkata. Nowadays, they don’t just make cigarettes, but they also branched out in other directions, food, hotels and IT.

Among the many brands created by ITC there’s Wills Navy Cut, Gold Flake Kings, Insignia, Classic, Silk Cut, Bristol, and more, including the well known Lucky Strike.

The company’s native country has over 120 million adult smokers and over 2.5 million smoking children. Unfortunately, Tobacco Atlas says nearly 1 million people die each year from tobacco-caused illness.

ITC racked up sales of some $6 billion, while the company’s market cap was calculated at over $51.6 billion.

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