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ASH Daily News
16 October 2002


HEADLINES

Zimbabwe’s tobacco exports will plummet in 2003
Lung cancer link
Tobacco sponsorship of the arts


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Zimbabwe’s tobacco exports will plummet in 2003

Zimbabwe’s tobacco exports will fall by at least 60 per cent and possibly by
as much as 75 per cent in 2003, largely as a result of land resettlement.
Tobacco is the country’s top export, accounting for between a quarter and a
third of export revenues in an average year. The number of large-scale
(mostly white) tobacco growers will fall to about 400 in 2003 from 1750 two
years ago. At present Zimbabwe is the world’s second-largest tobacco
exporter, accounting for 20 per cent of the total, behind Brazil which
supplies 28 per cent.

Financial Times, 16/10/02


Lung cancer link

Scientists have found a direct molecular link between smoking and lung
cancer. A team in new York discovered a chemical in cigarettes that damages
a gene called K-RAS, causing it to mutate.

The Times, 16/10/02
Article link:
http://jncicancerspectrum.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jnci;94/20/15
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Tobacco sponsorship of the arts

A review of arts sponsorship in the Evening Standard by a former arts
curator includes a reference to an exhibition sponsored by Philip Morris in
the Netherlands. Andrew Renton admits that initially he had doubts about
accepting tobacco money for the exhibition he was managing but eventually
decided to take it. He comments that “there is a line to be drawn in terms
of acceptable source”, noting that a Russian colleague once funded an
exhibition with mafia money. “I might baulk at that,” he says, “but I don’t
regret taking the Philip Morris money.”

Evening Standard, 15/10/02



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