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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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| | "Brazil is the main exporter of tobacco leaves and the 4th major world producer, |
| | behind only China, USA and India. In 1994/1995 there were 1,040,000 farmers |
| | employed in the tobacco crops." |
| | Abstract PO 322, 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 |
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| | In the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, high-nicotine tobacco is grown on 20,000 |
| | acres. Farmers call it fumo louco, or crazy tobacco, because it has been genetically |
| | altered to have twice the nicotine of standard tobacco leaf. The plants are 12 feet tall, |
| | 7 feet higher than regular varieties. |
| | Associated Press, December 21, 1997 |
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| | B.A.T. industries has opened an $80 million tobacco processing plant in Santa Cruz |
| | do Sul, Brazil, about 800 miles southwest of Rio de Janeiro. Its annual capacity is |
| | 120,000 tons, greater than any other facility of its kind in the world, and "just down the |
| | road, Philip Morris is working on its own $220 million expansion." Unlike most of |
| | Brazil, the area economy is booming. |
| | Wall Street Journal, July 21, 1997, p. B1 |
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| | In 1985, the World Health Organization named smoking as the leading cause of death |
| | in Brazil, the first developing country to gain this distinction. |
| | Tobacco Control in the Third World, p. 15 |
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| | In Brazil, $68.2 million was spent on tobacco advertising in 1988, the highest per |
| | capita amount of any developing country in the world. "On the South Atlantic coast, |
| | deforestation is virtually total, with the tobacco industry being the main culprit." |
| | Tobacco Control, p. 207 |
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