"The proposal risks decimating growers' livelihoods, condemning millions to a life of poverty and crippling the economies of many developing countries - the very same countries the WHO is funded to help.
"You have to wonder whether the authors of these guidelines understand what they are doing," says Antonio Abrunhosa, CEO of the ITGA. "One minute they tell you that with or without ingredients, all cigarettes are equally harmful; the next they go and ban one variety and not the other. How can that stop people from smoking? All it will do is send the economies of countries that rely on tobacco export crashing, along with millions of farmers and workers whose livelihoods depend on growing tobacco."
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