| UICC GLOBALink Presents... |
|
The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| | International: Latin America |
| | globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
| | Brazil's 100,000 tobacco farmers alone need annually the wood of about 60 million |
| | trees, or the equivalent of 1.5 million acres of forest, to cure their tobacco, according |
| | to one estimate. In 1991 alone, 20,000 new curing barns were built. |
| | No Smoking, RE Goodin, University of Chicago Press, 1989, p.118, Smoke Ring: |
| | the Politics of Tobacco, P. Taylor, Bodley Head, 1984, and Panos Briefing, |
| | September 1994 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | "In one of the widest attacks on smoking in the Third World, Brazil's Health Ministry |
| | has announced a ban on cigarette advertising in sporting and cultural events and on |
| | television until 11 p.m. Prime-time shows...will also be forbidden from showing people |
| | smoking...For those who cannot read, a graphic warning will cover one quarter of the |
| | front of each cigarette pack. One of the eight designs shows a black cloud hanging |
| | over a fetus carried by a smoking woman." |
| | New York Times, January 15, 1995 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | Cigarette consumption in Brazil dropped rapidly in the early 1990's, from 164 billion in |
| | 1990 to 103 billion in 1994, a per capita drop of 40 percent taking into account |
| | population growth. |
| | New York Times, January 15, 1995 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | In 1993, Brazil overtook the US as the world's largest exporter of raw tobacco. In |
| | 1994, Brazil exported $1 billion worth of tobacco, double the level of five years earlier. |
| | New York Times, January 15, 1995 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | From 1973 to 1993 in Chile, prevalence of smoking for women increased from 25% |
| | to 35%. About 45% of women smokers continue the habit throughout their |
| | pregnancies. |
| | Panoscope, October 1994, p. 20 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| | Monday, July 24, 2000 | Page 81 of 116 |
| | globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
Last page of this chapter Copyright (©) 2000 - David Moyer - published on UICC GLOBALink |