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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 31 Tobacco exports, imports and smuggling |
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| | The United States exported 244 billion cigarettes in 1996, up from 50 billion in 1975. |
| | 38% of the exports are to Asia, and the US share of the Japanese market has |
| | increased from 2% to 23% in the last 10 years. |
| | 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 (Luk Joossens and |
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| | In the last decade, domestic tobacco consumption has dropped by 17%, while |
| | exports rose by 259%. Philip Morris and RJR now sell more than two thirds of their |
| | manufactured cigarettes overseas. |
| | Contra Costa (Calif.) Times, June 8, 1997, p. F3 (from a Los Angeles Times |
| | commentary by Ralph Nader) |
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| | Some public health officials have asked whether it is any less morally offensive for the |
| | United States to export hundreds of billions of cigarettes overseas to lessen the trade |
| | deficit than it was for England in the 1830's to export opium to China to balance the |
| | imports of silk and tea, leading to the so-called "opium wars." |
| | NEJM, April 7, 1994, p. 977 |
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