You like smoking?
May. 13th, 2004 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperTake a look at this report. Smoking doesn't just poison the lungs of you and those around you. This report focusses on the farmers and marketing being done in third/second world to try and increase consumption.
Everyone's heard of the scandalous amounts sugar and coffee farmers make, which is why we have things like free trade. Tobacco farmers make even less, and the sugar and coffee farmers don't as a rule get poisoned by their own product just from touching it, never mind the pesticides/fertilisers and the rate of soil depletion by the crop itself. And then there's the deforestation issues, as the tobacco manufacturers insist on the leaves being cured over wood fires.
I can't even put all my anger into words. Just go read the report.
Everyone's heard of the scandalous amounts sugar and coffee farmers make, which is why we have things like free trade. Tobacco farmers make even less, and the sugar and coffee farmers don't as a rule get poisoned by their own product just from touching it, never mind the pesticides/fertilisers and the rate of soil depletion by the crop itself. And then there's the deforestation issues, as the tobacco manufacturers insist on the leaves being cured over wood fires.
I can't even put all my anger into words. Just go read the report.
