La asociación internacional de productores de tabaco ataca a la OMS / The international association of tobacco growers attacks WHO
Rev. panam. salud pública
; 13(4): 267-270, abr. 2003. ilus
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RESUMO
The International Association of Tobacco Growers (IATG) has publicly blamed WHOÆs tobacco control policies for a decline in the amount of land where tobacco is grown in the Americas and for the fact that many farmers have lost a way to make a living. Contrary to these allegations, the surface of land where tobacco is grown and the production of tobacco have increased between 1990 and 2000 (from 471 975 to 505 636 hectares and from 703 431 to 868 302 metric tons, respectively). Furthermore, the IATGÆs internal documents point to the cause of the declining harvests observed in some countries as being the drop in prices that has been triggered by surplus production on a global scale. According to internal documents belonging to the tobacco industry, the IATG is a public relations agency that was created by the industry as its spokesman in developing countries in an effort to curb tobacco control initiatives. WHO aims to reduce the use of tobacco products and the morbidity and mortality that are attributable to such use, a measure which will have no impact on the current generation of tobacco growers because, even if the prevalence of smoking does decline, the total number of smokers will continue to grow due to the overall increase in the size of the population
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Colección:
01-internacional
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LILACS
Asunto principal:
Nicotiana
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Organización Mundial de la Salud
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Industria del Tabaco
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Agricultura
Tipo de estudio:
Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev. panam. salud pública
Asunto de la revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2003
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos