Sunil Jain: Reading smoke signals
PERSPECTIVES
| STILL TOXIC (With 63% rural and 39% urban households using tobacco, the usage is huge) | ||||||
| Per capita expenditure on tobacco (Rs per month) | 1994-95 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2003 | 2004-05 |
| Rural | 5.14 | 7.57 | 8.36 | 7.62 | 7.6 | 8.05 |
| Urban | 5.18 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.77 | 8.3 | 8.71 |
| Share of non-food expenditure (%) | ||||||
| Rural | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
| Urban | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| Source: Indian Tobacco Industry, Oct 2007, ICRA | ||||||