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TOBACCO Intenet. TO: BRUCE REED, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy FROM: ROBEN FARZAD and TONY CASTANEDA, DPC Interns SUBJECT: AMERICAN SHARE OF NON-U.S. WORLD CIGARETTE MARKET Mr. Reed, attached please find the FDA Foreign Agricultural Service's most recent (1996) figures on the ratio of U.S. cigarette exports to total world cigarette consumption. United States' companies exported 243.9 billion cigarettes in 1996 -- about 5% of the ~5.3 trillion cigarettes consumed worldwide last year. Also attached is a copy of a 1996 publication from the World Health Organization delving into a number of global smoking trends across nationality, age, gender, and other gauges.