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Tobacco: United States
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, killing more than 400,000 people and costing nearly $100 billion in health care bills every year. Nearly 90 percent of all smokers start at or before age 18. Every day, another 1,000 kids become regular smokers, one-third of whom will die prematurely as a result.
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About the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: Based in Washington, D.C., the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a leader in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its devastating consequences in the United States and around the world. As part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the Campaign works with governments and non-governmental organizations in promoting and implementing public policies to reduce tobacco use. Visit www.tobaccofreecenter.org.
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Tobacco Policy Change alliances have already achieved results. For example, working in the heart of tobacco country, Kentucky ACTION and the North Carolina Alliance for Health each led efforts to boost their respective state's cigarette excise tax.Advocates in Navajo Nation are building public support for a proposal to restrict the sale and use of commercial tobacco across the largest reservation in the country. And Houston Communities for Safe Indoor Airwas an instrumental partner in mobilizing the city's minority communities to support the successful effort to improve Houston's weak workplace smoking protections.
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Tobacco companies must play by the same rules as other corporations. All losing defendants in Illinois (and most other states) are required to post a bond for the value of a pending judgment plus interest in order to appeal. This is not special treatment intended to punish tobacco companies; it is the rule for all losing defendants.
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Tobacco being cultivated over such a large area of the world, under very varying climatic conditions, and by many different races of mankind, the methods employed in its production naturally differ very considerably. As the United States of America produce more tobacco than any other country it will be best to deal generally with conditions there and to refer to marked differences in dealing with production in other countries.
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Tobacco is grown with assistance of man with the leaf as the only valuable part of the plant. Tobacco growth is restricted, by environmental factors, to about the latitudes of 60 degrees north to 45 degrees south, with the majority of the tobacco entering the world trade produced in the latitudes between 45 degrees north and 30 degrees south. Limits to it's growth are figured by the number of frost free days. Almost all continents are capable of growing tobacco but the United States, China, India and Brazil are the leading countries to grow tobacco.
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