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Subject: Pipes Digest

Subject: Tobacco growing in Europe

>From today's newspaper (November 14):
The EC (i.e. 95% of Western Europe) supports tobacco growing with
1.2 billion USD annually where the anti-smoking lobby gets 18
million USD. There are 200,000 tobacco farmers, mainly in Italy,
Spain, and Greece, each growing 1 acre in average.

They get EC support according to quantity; not quality, causing the
farmers to produce low quality tobacco. This tobacco cannot be sold
the EC because of the poor quality and therefore is used for export
mainly to Eastern Europe and North Africa. The subsidies means that
the tobacco can be sold at dumping prices and probably smashing the
local markets.

This note just to show you how the EC sometimes woks.

Sincerly,
Jesper Klith
Denmark


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