Modern commercial tobacco is a profitable commodity. It is the world’s most widely produced non-food crop grown predominantly in the countries of the Third World. Although commercial tobacco is cultivated in over 100 locations around the world, 75 per cent of them are located in developing countries, where

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If you belong to the South Pacific nation of Niue, you can get paid for quitting smoking. As Premier of the country Vivian Young noted recently, it would be cheaper for the national budget to pay people for stopping smoking than to cover medical costs of smoking-related diseases.

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Zyban, also known as bupropion or amfebutamone, and popular under brand names Wellbutrin, Budeprion and Buproban, is an atypical antidepressant that is used to treat depression, seasonal affective disorders, and nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

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Do you know that an “experienced” smoker can be easily identified by her facial features? The term “smoker’s face” was added to the medical vocabulary in 1985, when the British Medical Journal reported on the results of the study conducted by Dr. D. Model to find out how smokers’ skin was damaged by their unhealthy habit.

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It is not a secret that tobacco corporations use different methods to recruit new cigarette consumers among young people, and that indirect cigarette advertising in movies and on TV is one of them.

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