As of 2000, smoking is practiced by 1.22 billion people. Assuming no change in prevalence it is predicted by WHO that 1.45 billion people will smoke in 2010 and 1.5 to 1.9 billion in 2025. Assuming that prevalence will decrease at 1% a year and that there will be a modest increase of income of 2%, it is predicted the number of smokers will stand at 1.3 billion in 2010 and 2025..
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Alcohol and beer use statistics
Germany, Ireland and Czech Republic are the worlds absolute leaders in beer use. On the average, a German drinks 2 liters of beer a day... 

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Internet Ad market: development rates, perspective
Ad market is speedily developing sphere worldwide. In 2006, the worlds ad sales in all possible media (television, newspaper, magazine, radio, internet, billboard, cinema) hit 424.0 billion USD. The index reached 445.5 billion USD in 2007, and 472.5 billion USD in 2008. 
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According to www.clickz.com, internet adspend of President Obamas pre-election campaign in the period between January-April 2008 went over 3 million USD.


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According to the Internet World Stats information released on 01/03/09, the number of internet users in Georgia equaled to approximately 360,000 people in 2008, which makes only 7.8% of the population. Following the same source, by the end of 2000, the number of internet users was just 20,000 people in Georgia, but compared to the given statistics of 2000, in 2008, the index went 1,700.0% up.
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 - 181, with first place being the best. According to world bank doing business easy in Denmark and United Kingdom, but difficult in Russia and Ukraine...

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Another conclusion from the index - in which the bottom three rungs are again occupied by the "infernal trio" of Turkmenistan and North Korea - is that the international communitys conduct towards authoritarian regimes such as Cuba  and China  is not effective enough to yield results...

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 In 2005 the population of Europe was estimated to be 728 million according to the United Nations, which is slightly more than one-ninth of the worlds population...
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The table shows the most well-paid professions in the US.
The fact that the 14^th place in a 25 professions list is captured by medical professions is worth paying attention

Chief Executive Officers (Executive and General Directors) hold the 10^th place, while Marketing managers th 21^st
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The worst-paid professions in the US are - servicemen, that requires no special education

The annual income of low-paid employees is from 16,700 to 19,740 USD, which means that they earn about 1390-1645USD monthly
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