Factory workers roll cigars in Cuba. Most tobacco is grown in poorer countries, where water and farmland are often in short supply, and where such crops are often grown at the expense of vital food production, according to a WHO report; farmers who handle tobacco leaves consume the equivalent of 50 cigarettes worth of nicotine a day.

First published in the May 31, 2022, 11:49 p.m. edition

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