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The tobacco industry in Zimbabwe is on the recovery path following a decade of decline which has seen production dipping to a low of 48.8 million kilogram in 2008 from a peak of well over 200 million kilogram (kg) in 2000.

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As bans on smoking sweep the USA, an increasing number of employers — primarily hospitals — are also imposing bans on smokers. They won't hire applicants whose urine tests positive for nicotine use, whether cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or even patches.

Philip Morris is suing Australian government

Hurricane Irene costs tobacco farmers $114 million

 Major League Baseball is ready and geared up to ban chewing tobacco.

Iceland is considering banning the sale of cigarettes and making them a prescription-only product.

Make no mistake about it, their ultimate goal is downright elimination of tobacco from the face of the planet. They are well organized and well funded.

The year was 1590 and Pope Urban VII may have had the shortest papacy of any pope--he died of malaria two weeks after the death of his successor--but he nonetheless managed to issue the first anti-smoking edict in history during his brief reign. Anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe, or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" would risk excommunication. The law remained on the books in various forms until 1724, when Pope Benedict XIII, a smoker himself, repealed it.

Tobacco Taxes are bringing out the worst in some opportunists. RYOT understands the needs of honorable new tobacconists.