Top 5 Countries with the Highest Tobacco Consumption

3. Japan

Total Annual Tobacco Consumption: 334,339 tons

Population: 126,476,460

Tobacco Consumption Per Capita: 2.64 kg

Percentage of Adult Smokers: 20.1%

The legal age to purchase and consume tobacco products is 20 years in Japan. The county has seen the total number of cigarettes sold annually decline from 348.3 billion in 1996 to 98.9 billion in 2020.