- 36p for a 10-hour day*, not bad for a twelve year old
- I spend £2.38 a month on tobacco - a quarter of what I earn
- Don’t feed the world, get it to smoke.
- Can’t see the wood for the weed
- Tobacco’s sensitive, just like our ozone layer.
- Green with nausea, dizziness and stomach cramps
- The dangers of fake cigarettes.
FACT AND FIGURES
The wrong kind of trees.
Why some tree planting designed to help tobacco farmers just isn’t working.
Faced with dwindling supplies of wood fuel for the tobacco curing process, farmers are being encouraged to plant trees as well as tobacco. This could be a good thing for the environment but the trees that are planted are often non-native and fast growing, adversely affecting biodiversity and lowering the water table. Some farmers don’t even use these trees as fuel, instead they sell them as building poles. They then continue to fell what natural forest remains to use as fuel for the tobacco curing process. 1
- 1. Agroforestry in Africa. Panos, 1990.