Tobacco Market Post-2012-Privatization: Consumption, Smokers & Import Dependency (2018)
Post-2012-privatization consumption, active smokers, import dependency (80% of leaf imported), Iranian Tobacco Company's collapsed market share (~17.5%) vs.
Related_Laws
Laws related to this measure. Correlation = how closely this law tracks this measure's story. Expected causation = how strongly we would expect it to have moved the line. Neither is a claim of proof.
2006CorrelationExpected causationComprehensive Tobacco Control Act
Passed in 2006, this law creates a National Tobacco Control Headquarters chaired by the Health Minister, bans all tobacco advertising and promotion, puts import licensing solely in state hands, and requires health warnings covering at least half of each cigarette pack.
Why this link: As the framework law governing tobacco control, taxation, and market regulation, it forms part of the legal backdrop against which the post-privatization tobacco market (consumption, smokers, import dependency) evolved.
Caveat: The 2012 privatization of the tobacco monopoly and subsequent trade policy were more direct drivers of the market structure shown in this later snapshot than this 2006 control law.
Lag: Long lag, over a decade to the 2018 snapshot.