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Amount of pre-tax charge related to alleged underpayment of excise taxes and VAT claimed by tax authority, including penalties and interest

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Segment reporting information long lived assets. Long-lived assets consist of non-current assets other than goodwill; other intangible assets, net; deferred tax assets, investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries, and financial instruments.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Amount of gain (loss) from deconsolidation of subsidiary and derecognition of group of assets constituting transfer of business or nonprofit activity, excluding conveyance of oil and gas mineral rights and transfer of good or service in contract with customer.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Segment Reporting (Narrative) (Details) $ in Millions	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
Segment Reporting (Narrative) (Details) $ in Millions	Oct. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($) segment	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
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Number of operating segments \| segment				6
Net revenues				$ 31,405	$ 28,694	$ 29,805
Operating Segments
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Net revenues				31,405	28,694	29,805
Long-lived assets				8,507	8,482	8,288
Operating Segments \| East Asia & Australia
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Net revenues				5,953	5,429	5,364
Long-lived assets				740	807	829
Operating Segments \| European Union
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Net revenues				12,275	10,702	9,817
Long-lived assets				4,504	4,500	4,275
Marketing, administration and research costs
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Deconsolidation, gain (loss) amount						(239)
Indonesia \| Operating Segments
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Long-lived assets				900	700	800
Eastern Europe \| The Moscow Tax Inspectorate for Major Taxpayers Audit \| Other Litigation
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Amount of pre-tax charge related to alleged underpayment of excise taxes and VAT claimed by tax authority, including penalties and interest		$ 374
Canada \| Cecilia Letourneau & Conseil Quebecois Sur La Tabac Et La Sante and Jean-Yves Blais Cases \| Smoking and Health Class Actions \| RBH \| Appellate Ruling
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Amount of litigation charge			$ 194			194
Italy \| Operating Segments
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Long-lived assets				900	1,100	1,100
Switzerland \| Operating Segments
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Long-lived assets				1,300	1,300	1,100
Brazil
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Tax credit related to overpayment	$ 119
Tax credit related to overpayment, pending amount				90
SAUDI ARABIA \| Middle East & Africa
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Net revenues				(246)
Geographic Concentration Risk \| Japan
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Net revenues				$ 4,600	$ 4,100	$ 3,900
Customer Concentration Risk \| Customer One \| Net Revenues \| East Asia & Australia
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Concentration risk percentage				15.00%	14.00%	13.00%
Customer Concentration Risk \| Customer One \| Net Revenues \| European Union
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage				13.00%	11.00%	10.00%