Brazilian smokers spend 8% of income on cigarettes
Brazilian smokers spend approximately eight percent of their monthly household income per capita on cigarettes. Expenditures total almost ten percent among smokers aged 15–24, reaching 11 percent among Brazilians who did not finish middle school.The figures can be found in a study by Brazil’s cancer institute INCA, published Wednesday (May 31) during the launch of the “We need food, not tobacco” campaign by the World Health Organization (WHO), which marked the World No-Tobacco Day.“Overall, the sharpest variation occurs in income, not so much in spending. For people with less schooling in states or regions where the average income is lower, spending on cigarettes has a higher relative contribution,” Dr. André Szklo, one of the authors of the study, told Agência Brasil.In the North an...