| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| International: Africa |
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| Tobacco is the principal export earner and largest employer of labor in the African |
| countries of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Tanzania. It is also the major non-food crop in |
| Nigeria and Kenya. |
| International Journal of Health Sciences 16:281, 1986 |
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| 94% of all export earnings from tobacco in Africa went to Zimbabwe and Malawi. |
| These countries produce 74% of the continent's total crop (Zimbabwe 44%, Malawi |
| 30%), although Africa grows just 6% of the world total of 8.148 million tons of tobacco |
| each year. |
| British Medical Journal, January 15, 1994, p. 190, and Simon Chapman |
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| The African country of Malawi increased its tobacco production from 20 million |
| pounds in 1981 to 200 million pounds in 1991. |
| Tobacco Control in the Third World, p. 43, and American Medical News, June 29, |
| 1992 |
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| The economy of Malawi, in central Africa, depends heavily on tobacco, which |
| accounts for 75% of the country's total export earnings. 93% of all fuel used in Malawi |
| is wood, with 23% of the total (420,000 cubic meters a year) consumed by the |
| tobacco industry, mostly to dry and cure burley tobacco leaves. |
| Panoscope, October 1994, p. 16 |
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| South Africa has about 89,000 yearly deaths from tobacco. Smoking prevalence there |
| declined from 34% in 1992 to 28% in 1997. |
| Tobacco Control, Summer 1999, p. 132 |
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