New figures claim the price of Mongolians smoking cigarettes costs the country 6.5 percent of its national income. 

What this really means, is that health-related problems caused by cigarettes, including premature death, result in Mongolia’s economy seeing a decrease in the accumulated wealth of the country. 

Mongolia has been named among the ten countries in the world with the highest percentage of its population which smokes. 

In a study published by Forbes Magazine, Mongolia was included among countries in which 40 percent of the population smokes cigarettes. 

This compares with no higher than 20 percent in western countries. 

While no dollar amount of losses was placed on Mongolia’s smoking, Turkey, where 44 percent of the population smokes, loses some $384 billion in lost incomes annually. 

In Yemen, where 45 percent smoke, costs to the economy are placed at $1 billion per year. 

In addition to Mongolia, the top ten smokers countries include Kenya, Turkey, Namibia, Yemen, Guinea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Nauru and Sao Tome and Principe.

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