Sources and further reading: Wikipedia Smoking in North Korea, NK News, et The Guardian.
Since then, the rate has increased five times to todays 18.4 cents (including 0.1 cent reserved for the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Fund)
There's been a market trend away from traditional cigarettes to devices like e-cigarettes and those which slowly heat and roast, rather than burn, tobacco
Falling rates of smoking are driven, in part, by government efforts to ban indoor smoking and raise cigarette taxes
I mention this because many aromatics of high quality manage to create a tobacco that is mildly flavored
The other night, I was talking about Robin Williams with Bob Goldthwait, and people kept coming up to me saying, "Hey, Dave