煙草在線據斯里蘭卡商業在線報道編譯　　有媒體報道說，在過去的二十多年中，斯里蘭卡的卷煙產量減少了15%，達到42.7億支，現在有21%的男性人口和0.8%的女性人口吸煙。

　　據《半島報》引用酒精和藥物信息中心（ADIC）的一位反毒品擁護者Pubudu Sumanasekara的話說，斯里蘭卡國內的卷煙產量曾經為66億支，但在2012年下降到42.77億支。

　　目前還不清楚由小工廠制作的“比迪煙”，以及所謂的“白色卷煙”是否也在下降。

　　在2012年第一季度，錫蘭煙草公司報告，在國際收支危機后，隨著經濟放緩，公司銷量下降了15%。

　　當全球煙草公司因為西方的法律趨緊而將注意力轉移到該地區時，斯里蘭卡比其他許多亞洲國家更早地實行了法律，禁止在大眾媒體上進行煙草廣告以及通過體育賽事推廣煙草產品。

　　《半島報》引用科倫坡醫療機構的一名醫生馬赫什（Mahesh Rajasuriya）的話說，煙草業正在尋找途徑通過零售店廣告（所謂的線下廣告）和包裝來促銷他們的產品。

　　斯里蘭卡的錫蘭煙草公司還因為政府要求煙盒上攜有患病的肺部和癌癥的圖片標簽而走上法庭。這些法規最初是在加拿大等國家推出的。

　　《半島報》援引衛生部發言人的話說，大約21%的斯里蘭卡男性和0.8%的女性吸煙上癮。

　　在哥倫布發現美洲之后，煙草的使用在全球蔓延，由于卷煙機的發明，使得吸煙比手卷雪茄更便宜，因此吸煙變得更加流行。

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