烟草在线据斯里兰卡商业在线报道编译　　有媒体报道说，在过去的二十多年中，斯里兰卡的卷烟产量减少了15%，达到42.7亿支，现在有21%的男性人口和0.8%的女性人口吸烟。

　　据《半岛报》引用酒精和药物信息中心（ADIC）的一位反毒品拥护者Pubudu Sumanasekara的话说，斯里兰卡国内的卷烟产量曾经为66亿支，但在2012年下降到42.77亿支。

　　目前还不清楚由小工厂制作的“比迪烟”，以及所谓的“白色卷烟”是否也在下降。

　　在2012年第一季度，锡兰烟草公司报告，在国际收支危机后，随着经济放缓，公司销量下降了15%。

　　当全球烟草公司因为西方的法律趋紧而将注意力转移到该地区时，斯里兰卡比其他许多亚洲国家更早地实行了法律，禁止在大众媒体上进行烟草广告以及通过体育赛事推广烟草产品。

　　《半岛报》引用科伦坡医疗机构的一名医生马赫什（Mahesh Rajasuriya）的话说，烟草业正在寻找途径通过零售店广告（所谓的线下广告）和包装来促销他们的产品。

　　斯里兰卡的锡兰烟草公司还因为政府要求烟盒上携有患病的肺部和癌症的图片标签而走上法庭。这些法规最初是在加拿大等国家推出的。

　　《半岛报》援引卫生部发言人的话说，大约21%的斯里兰卡男性和0.8%的女性吸烟上瘾。

　　在哥伦布发现美洲之后，烟草的使用在全球蔓延，由于卷烟机的发明，使得吸烟比手卷雪茄更便宜，因此吸烟变得更加流行。

Sri Lanka Cigarette Production down 15-pct

　　Sri Lanka's cigarette production has slumped 15 percent over two decades to 4.27 billion sticks and 21 percent of the male population and 0.8 percent of the female population still smoked, a media report said.

　　The Island newspaper quoted the Pubudu Sumanasekara, the Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC), an anti narcotics advocacy as saying that domestic cigarette production which was 6,600 million and dropped to 4,277 million in 2012.

　　It was not clear whether 'beedi', made by small industries and so-called 'white cigarettes' are also going down.

　　In the first quarter of 2012, Ceylon Tobacco Company had reported a further 15 percent drop in sales as the economy slowed following a balance of payments crisis.

　　Sri Lanka has brought laws outlawing mass media advertising and sports promotion of tobacco much earlier than many other Asian nations, when global tobacco firms shifted their focus to the region as laws began to bite in the West.

　　The Island quoted a doctor at Colombo Medical Facility Mahesh Rajasuriya as saying that the industry was finding ways to promote their products through point of sale advertising in shops (so-called below the line advertising) and packaging.

　　Sri Lanka's Ceylon Tobacco Company has been gone to court over graphic labeling of packs adorned with diseased lungs and cancer. Such regulations were first introduced in countries like Canada.

　　The Island quoted a health ministry spokesman as saying abut 21 percent of Sri Lankan men and 0.8 percent women were addicted to smoking.

　　Tobacco use spread around the world after Columbus discovered the America's and it because more popular with the invention of tobacco rolling machines, which made tobacco smoking cheaper compared to hand-rolled cigars. Enditem