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Tobacco: United States
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Tobacco is extensively cultivated in the plains and on the rich alluvial deposits along the sides of rivers. During recent years the average value of the product has fallen, due apparently to deterioration in'quality. The exports of manufactured tobacco, such as Manila cheroots, find their principal market in China, British India, Australasia and the United Kingdom, whilst of the leaf tobacco fully three-quarters goes to Spain.
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Tobacco is a regional crop, concentrated in the Southeastern United States. It is ... grown in Canada, Africa, China, Brazil, and the Middle East. Tobacco is a significant crop in the Connecticut River valley, where farmers produce the leaves used for cigar wrappers by growing tobacco plants under white cloth to reduce the number of spots from the sun and insects.
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Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in Florida, claiming more than 28,700 lives each year and costing the state $6.3 billion annually in health care bills, including $1.2 billion in Medicaid payments alone. Government expenditures related to tobacco amount to a hidden tax of $563 each year on every Florida household. In addition, 15.7 percent of Florida high school students currently smoke, and 30,900 more kids become regular smokers every year.
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Based in Washington, DC, 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. The Campaign provides grants and assistance to governments and non-governmental organizations in promoting and implementing public policies that are proven to reduce tobacco use.
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Tobacco companies are lobbying for a cap on appeal bonds, which many say could bankrupt them and endanger the states' 25-year, multibillion-dollar settlement with the industry reached in 1998. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said Illinois should resist efforts by Philip Morris to pass legislation that would limit the amount of bond money the company has to post in the case.
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Tobacco is under siege. No fewer than 39 states are suing the industry to recover Medicaid outlays for smoking-related illnesses. Florida has led that effort with a new statute, allegedly resting on principles of equity, that strips tobacco companies of their traditional rights and puts in their place a shockingly simple rule of law: the state needs money; the industry has money; so the industry shall give and the state shall take.
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