Employment

• Over 80,000 ¹ people rely directly or indirectly on the UK tobacco companies’ activities for their jobs.
• 5107² people, many of them highly skilled, are directly employed in the UK by the TMA member companies.
• 23,000 of these are in companies who supply the industry with goods and services.
• Over 57,500 jobs are in distribution and retailing and are dependent on the industry.
• The impact of smuggling and the increase in crossborder shopping is being felt all over the UK, with small independent retailers’ livelihoods being particularly affected.