From: From transit hub to major supplier of illicit cigarettes to Argentina and Brazil: the changing role of domestic production and transnational tobacco companies in Paraguay between 1960 and 2003
Period
Years
Estimated average annual cigarette production (billion sticks)
Before 1994
1989–1992
1.20
1993
2.70
1994–1998
1994–1995
4.03
1996–1997
6.78
1998
12.38
1999–2003
1999–2000
13.68
2001–2002
25.75
2003
26.83