FTC Releases Reports on Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco
Source: Federal Trade Commission

The number of cigarettes sold or given away, as well as the amount spent on advertising and promotion by the five largest cigarette companies in the United States, decreased in 2004 and 2005, according to a report released today by the Federal Trade Commission. In a separate report on smokeless tobacco, the FTC said the number of pounds sold by the five largest manufacturers rose for each year from 2002 to 2004, then decreased in 2005, while advertising and promotional expenditures fluctuated during that period, with the most spent in 2005.

The FTC has issued cigarette reports since 1967 and smokeless tobacco reports since 1987. This year’s reports contain statistics on sales volumes and marketing expenditures – for cigarettes for the years 2004 and 2005 and for smokeless tobacco for the years 2002-2005. The cigarette report also updates other information contained in previous reports, such as the market share of filtered versus non-filtered cigarettes. This year’s smokeless tobacco report has new categories of information than past years, such as sales data broken down by package size.

+ Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report for 2004 and 2005 (PDF; 880 KB)
+ Federal Trade Commission Smokeless Tobacco Report for 2002 Through 2005 (PDF; 619 KB )

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