| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 31 Tobacco exports, imports and smuggling |
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| "Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively, because Americans are |
| smoking less." |
| Vice President Dan Quayle, 1990 (The Progressive, May 1991, p. 28) |
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| During the 1970's, the US exported over $1 billion in tobacco leaf to the developing |
| world as part of the Food for Peace program. The inclusion of tobacco in this |
| program ended in 1982. |
| Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs 12:32, 1992 |
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| The United States is "sending Asians a message that their lungs are somehow more |
| expendable than American lungs" by not requiring warning labels on exported |
| cigarettes. Rep. Chet Atkins, D-Massachusetts (New York Times magazine, July 10, |
| 1988, p. 62) In 1992, US manufacturers did add the warning labels to exported |
| cigarettes. |
| (Associated Press, February 6, 1992) |
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| In 1992 the US Agriculture Department spent $3.5 million to help promote US tobacco |
| overseas exports. The House later voted to end this practice. In studies comparing |
| the tar content of similar brands of cigarettes sold in the United States and the |
| Philippines, the Philippine cigarettes had a 50% higher tar content, and sometimes |
| twice as much nicotine. |
| World Smoking and Health No. 1, 1993, p. 13 |
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| US tobacco exports, mostly to Asia and Eastern Europe, increased from $2.7 billion |
| in 1985 to $4 billion in 1988 and $7 billion in 1990, an annual growth rate of 25%. |
| Prevention File, Summer, 1991, p. 10 |
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