Chapter 31 Tobacco exports, imports and smuggling

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The amount of tobacco leaf used per 1000 cigarettes has decreased by more than

half since the 1950's. Tobacco imports have increased 75% since 1986, and now

account for 25% of leaf used in US cigarettes.

American Medical News, November 14, 1994, p. 16

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A 1993 law requiring 75% domestic tobacco content in US-made cigarettes has been

ruled in violation of GATT trade agreements, and is being replaced by a less

restrictive tariff rate quota.

American Medical News, January 16, 1995, p. 15

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"The same US government that threatens countries that export cocaine to our shores

also threatens countries that attempt to maintain barriers to our own deadly drug

pushing: the exportation and aggressive marketing of American cigarettes and

smokeless tobacco products."

Kenneth E. Warner, Ph. D

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"It is the height of hypocrisy for the United States, in our war against drugs, to demand

that foreign nations take steps to stop the export of cocaine to our country while at the

same time we export nicotine, a drug just as addictive as cocaine, to the rest of the

world."

C. Everett Koop, M.D., NEJM, March 28, 1991

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More Colombians die today from diseases caused by tobacco products exported to

their country by American tobacco companies than do Americans from Colombian

cocaine.

Social Science and Medicine 38:113, 1993

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