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Farming, Economic Effects and Historical Facts
The tobacco facts on farming show that tobacco plants yield more money for farmers than food crops.
Originally tobacco leaves were smoked in a pipe bowl or chewed for the effects of nicotine. Historical
facts about tobacco use reveal cigarette smoking to be a relatively new invention in the history of
tobacco use.
Health facts on smoking indicate that the global effects of tobacco will be reflected in
mortality and morbidity rates that are higher that any plague in history.
Negative predictions about the overall economic impact of reducing tobacco demand are often used to
limit or restrict full scale smoking bans and the implementation or enforcement of anti tobacco laws.
Authors that manipulate numbers to predict a negative economic impact from reducing tobacco farming, production and use,
often fail to take into consideration the redistribution of money spent in the tobacco industry
and on tobacco products. When the money is not spent on these products it can be used elsewhere and
when these calculations are done the overall economic impact of reduced tobacco production is
considered by many statisticians to be negligible.
This section of the website will explore the history of tobacco use, the origin of tobacco smoking and other tobacco facts
that are of interest in understanding the wide range tobacco effects not just the health effects.
Random Historical Facts About Tobacco
- By about 1577 there is record that tobacco was recommended as a cure for toothache,
worms, bad breath, and even of all things cancer. (See Smoking and Cancer)
- total cigarette production worldwide is estimated by the World Health Organization at five and a half trillion per year
Tobacco Farming Facts
- After more than a decade of decline in the production of tobacco in the US, the amount of land
dedicated to tobacco farming has increased again whereas,
tobacco farming and production in Canada continues to decline.
- In the US those states that have the highest economic dependence on tobacco farming also
have the weakest laws for smoking bans.
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