| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 27 International |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| International: Tobacco and deforestation |
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| Tobacco-caused deforestation is a major problem in parts of the developing world, |
| particularly in Brazil and in the tobacco-growing countries of East Africa. |
| Tobacco Control, Fall 1994, pp. 192-93 |
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| Brazil, the world's fourth largest tobacco producer, dries or cures its crop by burning |
| wood, as does most of Africa and much of India, Thailand, and the Philippines. More |
| affluent countries flue-cure their tobacco with coal, gas, or oil. One report claims that |
| fuelwood curing requires about one tree per 300 cigarettes, and another that the crop |
| from each acre of tobacco requires the felling of one acre of the adjacent woodland |
| each year. |
| Tobacco Control in the Third World, p. 57 and JAMA, June 20, 1986, p. 3244 |
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| With flue curing of tobacco, the green leaf must be kept at high temperatures by |
| circulated heat for about a week. Brazil and most African and Third World tobacco |
| producing countries cure their crop by burning wood. |
| Tobacco Control, Fall 1994, p. 191 |
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| About half of the tobacco output of the countries of the developing world is cured with |
| wood. An average of 7.8 pounds of wood is needed to cure one pound of tobacco, |
| and trees from one acre of land may be needed to cure one acre of tobacco. |
| Panos Briefing, September 1994 |
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| The proportion of flue-cured tobacco (in contrast to air-and sun-cured tobacco) |
| continues to rise, accounting for 54% of world output in the late 1980's. Unlike the |
| other methods of curing, flue-curing is capital- and resource-intensive, particularly in |
| its use of wood. |
| Tobacco in History, p. 215 |
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| Page 98 of 116 |
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