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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
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| | International: Latin America |
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| | In a survey from Quito and Guayaquil, the two largest cities of Ecuador, 45% of men |
| | and 17% of women were smokers. |
| | Tobacco Control, Summer 1996, p. 121 |
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| | Adult smoking prevalence in Venezuela decreased from 40% in 1984 to 30.6 % in |
| | 1996. |
| | Abstract PO 182, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 |
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| | The smoking prevalence in Brazil is 24%, or 30.6 million smokers in the country of |
| | 150 million people. Total yearly deaths are 80,000 caused by tobacco. 36% of |
| | pregnant women are smokers. |
| | Abstracts PO 323 and 324, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, |
| | 1997 |
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| | There are about 209,000 tobacco farmers in Brazil cultivating 750,000 acres of land; |
| | in 1997, 300,000 tons of tobacco worth almost a billion dollars was exported, |
| | representing one third of Brazil's agricultural income, after soybeans and coffee. |
| | Tobacco companies make high profits on fertilizers and pesticides (many of the latter |
| | highly toxic and banned in Europe and the U.S.) that they sell to tobacco farmers. |
| | 9540 cases of pesticide poisoning and 919 deaths were reported from 1986 to 1997; |
| | in Southern Brazil, tobacco workers were the main victims. |
| | Earth Island Journal, Fall 1998, p. 28 |
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| | Total employment from tobacco cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution in Brazil is |
| | about 2.5 million. The price of a pack averages $1.07. |
| | Abstracts OS 155 and 156, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, |
| | 1997 |
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