From the tobacco fields and boardrooms of the Jim Crow South to the factories, farms, and merchant shops of Shanghai, Enstad reconstructs how American big business built a vast overseas empire held in place by millions of smokers, thousands of workers, dozens of capitalists, and one, mischievous little productthe mass-produced, bright leaf tobacco cigarette
On its website, the tobacco industry-funded campaign group, Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (Forest), carries a quote from the playwright and screenwriter, Sir Ronald Harwood, who observes: Tobacco is not an illegal substance, yet the government is persecuting a minority. How much of a minority has only started to become evident in the past five years
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Now if we think about tobacco in the same way, Hart says, the people who are gonna pay the price are the same people who pay the price poor people. Indeed, nearly three-fourths of all US smokers come from lower socioeconomic statuses, with those below the poverty line twice as likely to smoke as those above it