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"Cigarettes in India, 2017" that provides extensive and highly detailed current and future market trends in the market. The report offers Market size and structure of the overall and per capita consumption based upon a unique combination of industry research, fieldwork, market sizing analysis, and our in-house expertise. Cigarettes account for only 15.0% of tobacco consumption each year, due to the widespread availability of alternative tobacco products such as bidis and chewing tobacco, combined with the relatively low taxes and low prices of these products. Males make up 93.1% of the cigarette smoking population and 91.7% of the daily cigarette smokers. Scope - Cigarettes consumption will increase by 2.0% in 2016, which represents an 11.2% increase against 1990 levels. - Per capita consumption for 2016 is estimated to be 26.3% below its levels in 1990. - The India cigarette market is dominated by four large manufacturers, that collectively accounted for 99.2% of legitimate market volume in 2016. - Imports have officially never been a major feature of the Indian market, accouting for 0.6% of consumption in 2016.