Buying food contributes to poverty also but I ain't gonna stop eating. Jackasses
In America, a person dies every twenty-five seconds from abortion (source) Most small tobacco farmers live in poverty and many of them employ children, who work in the fields instead of attending school.
So although families may benefit from an increased income initially, there are no long-term benefits as these children grow up illiterate.
This could be said of many livelihoods in these developing nations. It happens to be chick right now to pick on tobacco and smoking. [taking a deep, sweet Quinnalt Blend drag on my pipe].
I don't smoke and I don't stay around where it is. However, making a comparison between smoking and poverty is like comparing apples and oranges. Pres. Bush: Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
Of course smoking contributes to poverty! Has the author checkout out the price for a pack of smokes lately?! (/sarcasm)
The WHO... is calling for more countries to come forward and sign the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which... requires countries to ban or impose tough restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion within five years.
Ah. So the WHO is going to take away what little money the poverty-stricken farmers make.
Liberalism in a nutshell.
Thom Pain wants UN to accept that they contribute NOTHING positive in this world, and may seriously contribute to what's wrong in this world. And they're d*** expensive!
Ok, why do we still need the UN??
How about cigarette taxes causing them to cost up to $8 a pack? Doesn't *that* little tidbit contribute to poverty?
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Tobacco prohibition is coming, who profits ? The criminals and government officials and local police in on the action.
At the same time however it won't admit that the UN performs the same function, with fervor, by attempting to soak the rich and depriving them of well needed cash flow to fight poverty on their own and with a coherent and less political approach to do so.
Taxes on smoking contributes to poverty.