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The hiring of young women and men to work at these gatherings is outsourced to event management companies, according to people with knowledge of the gatherings

With a long history of denying the health risks of smoking and second-hand smoke, obscuring the truth about tobacco and deceiving smokers, the tobacco industry has evolved into an inordinately lucrative business, writes Judith Mackay, in the abridged afterword to Bitter Leaves

Control of tobacco is morally the best policy

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As the world grapples with the challenge of market incentives encouraging the production of tobacco, one of the world's leading health risks, in lieu of urgently needed food production, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and intergovernmental organizations should help facilitate the shift away from tobacco to food crops by helping connect farmers to consumers

Moreover, evidence shows that wide differentials in cigarette taxes across states have opened up a black market for smuggling, with criminals obtaining cigarettes in low-tax states and selling them in high-tax states