Top 10 Biggest Tobacco Companies in the World in 2017

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6. Japan Tabacco

Score: 11

Up next on our list of biggest tobacco companies in the world in 2017, we have Japan Tobacco, a company founded in 1949 and based in Tokyo. Japan Tobacco controls over 65% of the local cigarette market with brands such as Cabin, Hope, Sakura, Seven Stars, and more.

Japan has over 25 million adult smoker, and some 33,000 underage smokers, data from the Tobacco Atlas shows.

Forbes notes they sold cigarettes worth of $19.7 billion, while the company’s market cap was calculated at $66.4 billion.

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