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International: Tobacco and deforestation

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Tobacco-caused deforestation is a major problem in parts of the developing world,

particularly in Brazil and in the tobacco-growing countries of East Africa.

Tobacco Control, Fall 1994, pp. 192-93

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Brazil, the world's fourth largest tobacco producer, dries or cures its crop by burning

wood, as does most of Africa and much of India, Thailand, and the Philippines. More

affluent countries flue-cure their tobacco with coal, gas, or oil. One report claims that

fuelwood curing requires about one tree per 300 cigarettes, and another that the crop

from each acre of tobacco requires the felling of one acre of the adjacent woodland

each year.

Tobacco Control in the Third World, p. 57 and JAMA, June 20, 1986, p. 3244

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With flue curing of tobacco, the green leaf must be kept at high temperatures by

circulated heat for about a week. Brazil and most African and Third World tobacco

producing countries cure their crop by burning wood.

Tobacco Control, Fall 1994, p. 191

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About half of the tobacco output of the countries of the developing world is cured with

wood. An average of 7.8 pounds of wood is needed to cure one pound of tobacco,

and trees from one acre of land may be needed to cure one acre of tobacco.

Panos Briefing, September 1994

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The proportion of flue-cured tobacco (in contrast to air-and sun-cured tobacco)

continues to rise, accounting for 54% of world output in the late 1980's. Unlike the

other methods of curing, flue-curing is capital- and resource-intensive, particularly in

its use of wood.

Tobacco in History, p. 215

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