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International: Africa

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Tobacco is the principal export earner and largest employer of labor in the African

countries of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Tanzania. It is also the major non-food crop in

Nigeria and Kenya.

International Journal of Health Sciences 16:281, 1986

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94% of all export earnings from tobacco in Africa went to Zimbabwe and Malawi.

These countries produce 74% of the continent's total crop (Zimbabwe 44%, Malawi

30%), although Africa grows just 6% of the world total of 8.148 million tons of tobacco

each year.

British Medical Journal, January 15, 1994, p. 190, and Simon Chapman

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The African country of Malawi increased its tobacco production from 20 million

pounds in 1981 to 200 million pounds in 1991.

Tobacco Control in the Third World, p. 43, and American Medical News, June 29,

1992

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The economy of Malawi, in central Africa, depends heavily on tobacco, which

accounts for 75% of the country's total export earnings. 93% of all fuel used in Malawi

is wood, with 23% of the total (420,000 cubic meters a year) consumed by the

tobacco industry, mostly to dry and cure burley tobacco leaves.

Panoscope, October 1994, p. 16

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South Africa has about 89,000 yearly deaths from tobacco. Smoking prevalence there

declined from 34% in 1992 to 28% in 1997.

Tobacco Control, Summer 1999, p. 132

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