Iranians Send $900m Up in Smoke Annually

Iranians buy 100 trillion rials ($900 million) worth of cigarettes annually and spend 350 trillion rials ($3.18 billion) on treatment of smoking-related diseases, the associate dean of Tehran University of Medical Sciences said. 
“Although Iran is a member of the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control for 12 years now, it fails to implement some of its articles, including the ban on selling tobacco products to persons under the age of 18,” Abdolrahman Rostamian was also quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency.
Smoking is to blame for 90% of cancers, including lung cancer, and 25% of deaths caused by coronary heart diseases.