Tobacco prices and production levels are dropping amid pressure from the anti-smoking lobby and the general downturn in agricultural produce markets. The Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA), which promotes and protects tobacco farmers' interests, says that the leaf also accounts for 13 percent of the country's gross domestic product and makes up 23 percent of the tax base. The southern African country is a major tobacco exporter in the world, accounting for five percent of the world's...

Large cigars typically containbetween 5 and 17 grams of tobacco. It is not unusual for some premiumcigars to contain the tobacco equivalent of an entire pack of cigarettes. Posted on April 10, 2007 by Richard Johnson Scientific evidence has shown that cancers of the oral cavity (lip, tongue,mouth, and throat), larynx, lung, and esophagus are associated with cigarsmoking. Almost all cigarette smokers report inhaling whilethe majority of cigar smokers do not because cigar smoke is generally...

Many tobacco farmers in Mason County and across the state intend to increase tobacco production this year. The Ledger Independent - Maysville, Kentucky. Wenz said he did not want to invest in housing facilities for migrant workers without knowing how profitable the tobacco industry would be in coming years. Part of his decision to do so was made because he has a nephew who is old enough to grow tobacco and would like to have a crop. With that bit of uncertainty, Wenz said he and his family...

End of quota system, decline of small farmers cited as causes By CLAY CAREY Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD For generations, a large metal arch over the main highway into this town boasted that it was home to the World s Finest Dark Fired Tobacco. Tobacco warehouses dotted the landscape around Springfield s public square, symbols of the big business that tobacco was. End of quota system, decline of small farmers cited as causes By CLAY CAREY Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD For generations, a large metal...

Organizers said participants will learn how to speak out against tobacco use, secondhand smoke and the tobacco industry's marketing tactics. Young people ages 13 to 20 can sign up for Saturday's anti-tobacco youth summit at the War Memorial Convention Hall. The event is sponsored by REAL: Hawai'i Youth Movement Exposing the Tobacco Industry. REAL is coordinated through the Cancer Research Center at the University of Hawai'i and funded by the Master Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund.

I urge officials to tighten the proposed rules by requiring manufacturers to prove their products are cigars and establishing tougher standards for cigar content. Blumenthal feels that labeling cigarettes as "little cigars" helps the manufacturer avoid taxes, advertising bans and warning labels. He also said the manufacturers can evade payments under the national tobacco settlement that he helped orchestrate in the 1990s. That settlement will cost tobacco companies $246 billion, while...