Marketplace Globalist Quiz: Tobacco Production King

Tobacco continues to pose one of the world’s largest public health challenges, killing 5.4 million people each year. With governments and international health organizations stepping up their efforts to curb tobacco use, we wonder: Which country produces more tobacco than any other?
The United States has slipped to fourth place among the world’s top tobacco producers. Its output totaled 363,000 metric tons in 2008 — or 6% of global production, according to the latest available data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Tobacco has been a major cash crop for the U.S. economy for hundreds of years. The United States was the world’s largest tobacco producer as late as 1975, but U.S. production has since declined, while production in emerging market economies has soared.