> the Tobacco industry benefits enormously from manufacturing economies of scale. I was expecting the rest of the comment to be an explanation of why this is s

> the Tobacco industry benefits enormously from manufacturing economies of scale. I was expecting the rest of the comment to be an explanation of why this is so, but I feel that it really just restated, with specific numbers, the claim that they do indeed make a large amount of money (or at least revenue) per employee.