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A Pan American Health Organization study of more than 10,000 pages of internal documents from Latin America's leading tobacco venders, British American Tobacco and Philip Morris, found that Big Tobacco is doing all it can to derail the anti-smoking drive, lobbying lawmakers to allow "light" and mild" labels on cigarette packages, hiring scientists to counter evidence of the effects of secondhand smoking, and pressuring, even bribing, elected officials not to vote for the treaty. A spokesman for British American Tobacco Australia, John Galligan, said the excise on tobacco products already totals about $30b, while health care costs resulting from those products cost $6b: 'If it's about health care . To revive Cuba's flagging cigarette industry, a Brazilian subsidiary of British American Tobacco, Souza Cruz, has signed a deal that includes planting 1,730 acres of tobacco in Cuba and machinery for a factory capable of producing 6 billion cigarettes, half of Cuba's annual consumption. |
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