Zimbabwe: Tobacco - Development or Disease?

On World No Tobacco Day (May 31), the World Health Organisation calls on countries to raise taxes on tobacco to promote quitting and prevent new users. Tobacco continues to be the leading cause of preventable death and it eventually kills up to half of its users - one in every six seconds. According to WHO, "the tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing nearly six million people a year."

Tobacco farming raises incomes for resettled farmers, or does it?

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