Man and female active smokers in Indonesia in 2012 increased by 35 percent or about 61.4 million in 2013.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesian smokers consumed at least 302 billion pieces of cigarettes in 2013, placing Indonesia on the top of the Southeast Asian smokers list, according to a research.
The research results of the Demographic Institute of the University of Indonesias Economic Faculty indicated that cigarette consumption in Indonesia accounted for 46.16 percent of the population.
Man and female active smokers in Indonesia in 2012 increased by 35 percent or about 61.4 million in 2013, the research data showed.
It was revealed that deaths caused by smoking-related diseases in 2010 reached 190,260, or about 12.7 percent of all the death cases in the same year.
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