A drop in tobacco plantings in the Rangpur district of Bangladesh is being put down to an awakening by farmers to the health implications of what they were doing.Read More
If people are not put off smoking by being told that it will kill them; it is probably time to reassess that warning and how people interpret it in the light of their own experiences.Read More
Although it is illegal to grow tobacco in Australia now, the country has a history of tobacco production and some widely dispersed areas where it is known that this crop will grow.Read More
A court in Greece has suspended a huge fine imposed on SEKAP that, it is said, would otherwise have condemned the tobacco company to bankruptcy. Read More
There could be a competitive advantage in Malawi being one of the first big leaf tobacco producers to switch to other, internationally-traded crops.Read More
There are some good arguments for operating a tobacco monopoly, but there can be no good argument for undermining such a monopoly with a badly-thought-out tax structure.Read More
The Australian government, which has raised cigarette prices to unaffordable levels, is threatening smokers who buy illicit products with up to five years in jail, knowing those smokers are addicted. Read More
The logic of the Canadian authorities’ approaches to marijuana and tobacco seems to suggest that they want consumers to buy licit marijuana but illicit tobacco.Read More
As flue-cured tobacco auctions in the Indian state of Karnataka wind down, those in the state of Andhra Pradesh are about to open.Read More
Researchers in Sri Lanka say that tobacco farmers can make their livings in other ways; so they don’t want them called tobacco farmers. How about, farmers who happen to be growing tobacco?Read More
