Tea, it looks has been around sinc...

Tea, it looks has been around since the beginning of time, yet its popularity continues to open and grow. In North America, consumer worn out more than $520 million upon standard black tea, and more than $266 million forward specialty black tea in 2001 according to Euromonitor International, based in Chicago. And that's not on a level close to the levels of tea consumption in Western Europe which Euromonitor measured at almost $19 billion for standard black tea, and $513 million for specialty black tea in 2001

India leads the world in production of tea, according to the International Tea Committee.