Abstract
The increasing prevalence of smoking and the fact that it poses an important problem for countries causes governments, national and international institutions and organizations to take some financial and social measures. No matter how strong the health infrastructure of the countries and how strict the social and political measures are, the most important factor in reducing smoking is the awareness of individuals. Cigarette production and trade, which is among the most profitable sectors of the world, uses more advanced production and marketing techniques every day. In this study, between the years of 1990-2019 in Turkey, in what direction it affects the increasing the consumption of cigarette prices, unemployment and population growth have investigated the relationship between cigarette consumption. The existence of a causality relationship among the obtained data was examined with the Granger causality test, and the existence of a cointegration relationship was analyzed with the Johansen cointegration test. According to the findings of the study, it was determined that unemployment and population growth increased cigarette consumption, while increasing cigarette prices (taxes) decreased cigarette consumption.