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In the 1960s, momentum started to grow in opposition to allowing smoking on planes

In a 2012 report, the Washington-based Global Business Group on Health said Japans ownership of Japan Tobacco shares leads to a national conflict of interest, in which the government treats smoking as a behavioral issue rather than a health concern. Though smoking rates have started to decline in recent years, the Japanese remain heavy smokers, consuming about 1,841 cigarettes a person, according to data compiled last year by the World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society

In fact, the market share of light cigarettes grew from 2.0 percent in 1967 to 83.5 percent of the tobacco market in 2005