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  2. Tobacco industry - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. [1] It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it can be farmed on all continents except Antarctica.

  3. Smoking in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Smoking in Vietnam is a major health concern, with an estimated 50% of men and 5% of women using tobacco, an estimated 18 million smokers in 2013. [1] In the same year, 47 million non-smokers in Vietnam were regularly exposed to tobacco smoke. [2] Vietnam's Health Education and Communication Center estimates that 40,000 people die annually in ...

  4. Tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco use is a cause or risk factor for many deadly diseases, especially those affecting the heart, liver, and lungs [ 2 ] as well as many cancers. In 2008, the World Health Organization named tobacco use as the world's single greatest preventable cause of death. [ 3 ] In Minas Gerais, Brazil.

  5. Cigarette - Wikipedia

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    Cone smoking is popular because as the cigarette burns, it tends to get stronger and stronger. A cone allows more tobacco to be burned at the beginning than the end, allowing for an even flavor [42] The United States Tobacco Taxation Bureau defines a cigarette tube as "Cigarette paper made into a hollow cylinder for use in making cigarettes." [43]

  6. Tobacco smoking - Wikipedia

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    Aztec women are handed flowers and smoking tubes before eating at a banquet, Florentine Codex, 16th century. Smoking's history dates back to as early as 5000–3000 BC, when the agricultural product began to be cultivated in Mesoamerica and South America; consumption later evolved into burning the plant substance either by accident or with intent of exploring other means of consumption. [1]

  7. Economy of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The economy of Vietnamis a developingmixedsocialist-oriented market economy.[3] It is the 33rd-largest economyin the world by nominal gross domestic product(GDP) and the 26th-largest economyin the world by purchasing power parity(PPP). It is a lower-middle income country with a low cost of living.

  8. Tobacco control - Wikipedia

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    The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that ...

  9. Types of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Type 22 tobacco is a classification of United States tobacco product as defined by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, effective date November 7, 1986. The definition states that type 22 tobacco is a type of dark fire-cured tobacco, known as Eastern District fire-cured, produced principally in a section east of the Tennessee River in southern ...