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LONDON, October 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abrunhosa Calls on Government Leaders to Join Farmers and 'Step Back from the WHO Abyss' To mark the first-ever World Tobacco Growers' Day (#WTGD [http://www.twitter.com/tobaccogrowers ]) today, tobacco farmers across the globe are taking part in dozens of events to highlight the disastrous impact World Health Organisation proposals will have on their livelihoods if passed by parties...

CASTELO BRANCO, Portugal, September 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ITGA Launches Global Petition Campaign to Oppose Draconian Measures More than 30 million tobacco farmers worldwide today reacted with outrage to the publication of new proposals to regulate tobacco farming by the World Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), vowing to rally governments to oppose the measures....

LUSAKA, Zambia, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- African tobacco farmers from a cross-section of countries concluded the two-day International Tobacco Growers Association Africa Regional Meeting today by issuing a declaration of opposition to the proposals that threaten the region's jobs and local economies. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120530/535650 ) The declaration from agricultural leaders from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and...

LUSAKA, Zambia, May 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Representatives of hundreds of thousands of African tobacco farmers will gather at the International Tobacco Growers Association Africa Regional Meeting from May 28 to 30 to discuss outrageous recommendations being developed by international regulators that would destroy their livelihoods. Farmer leaders attending the meeting from Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe will focus on the recommendations...

Over 170 countries at a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Uruguay were taking up measures on Friday to regulate flavored tobacco products due to concerns that tobacco companies seek to get young people addicted to nicotine. During the meeting of the signatories of the body's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, parties planned to define guidelines on tobacco product ingredients. They sought to draft a protocol on illicit tobacco trade and debate pricing, taxation and controls of...