Provided that smuggling is reasonably well controlled, that all tobacco products are taxed at similar rates, and that taxes are effectively collected on all tobacco products, tobacco taxes have proven important in achieving both health and fiscal objectives.

20. The processing of tobacco and the manufacture of tobacco products also provide employment, as do related industries such as agricultural equipment and transportation and engineering related to tobacco processing.

The use of tobacco products or exposure to secondhand smoke during pregnancy has been linked to low birth weight.

quot 2. Urges Governments to intensify their commitment and efforts designed to reduce tobacco consumption and the demand for tobacco products, including the implementation of comprehensive multisectoral plans

It has been planned to prohibit employment of children in jobs that are related to the manufacture, as well as trade or advertising of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products.

Except for tobacco, which made modest gains, the production of all other major industrial crops also declined in 1992.

Finally, the economic cost of labour used in the manufacture of tobacco products, as well as in retailing, is the opportunity cost of that labour.

Tobacco?

The reduction in tobacco consumption in the developed world is due to increased health awareness following antismoking campaigns, heavy taxation and the subsequent high retail price of tobacco products, as well as the increasing social stigma attached to smoking.

Many people are also employed in the wholesale and retail trade in tobacco but it is difficult to estimate the number solely employed in the sale of tobacco products, at both the wholesale and retail levels.

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A recent advertising campaign and carton redesign by one of Russia s largest tobacco manufacturers has riled Russan bloggers and sparked a debate on responsible marketing and advertising.

(c) Tobacco

(a) The World Bank apos s activities in the health sector, including sector work, policy dialogue and lending, discourage the use of tobacco products

Death and Tobacco Taxes

Tobacco aimed at teens?

I sell tobacco.

Give him some tobacco.

You ever chaw?

Tobacco in your nose? That's disgusting.

I. TOBACCO, DISEASES AND DEATHS . 1 14 4

You need some more.

Join me in a chaw of tobacco? No, sir.

Chawing tobacco is a nasty habit.

Tobacco, mixed in rum.

Puffed, foam and freeze dried tobaccos also reduce the weight of tobacco used per cigarette.

Finished products

TOBACCO OR HEALTH

C. Tobacco control and health gains . 8 14 5

II. TOBACCO GROWING, MANUFACTURING AND TRADING . 15 45 7

B. Environmental costs of tobacco production . 28 33 10

(o) Tobacco production and processing 94.1

The tobacco lobby, it's too strong.

It was made in tobacco plants.

Would you mind, please, passing me my tobacco?

Excuse me. I'm going to get my tobacco.

Other products cost less. Other products had more features.

Information on the hazards of tobacco is included in the school curriculum, and many schools have been declared tobacco free.

Modern techniques of tobacco advertising and promotion, typically most expertly practised by the transnational tobacco companies, can be used to make tobacco use appear very attractive.

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Export of finished products

Opposition from the tobacco industry is an obvious obstacle to tobacco control.

Ontario has invested in a comprehensive tobacco control strategy that will reduce tobacco use through legislation, programs and mass media.

39. Tobacco taxes are an important source of government revenue, as well as an important health policy tool for discouraging tobacco consumption.

In circumstances of rising tobacco taxes, government revenues will continue to increase for many years, even as tobacco consumption declines.