Can smoking be healthy?<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Smoking won't affect your health if it is done
\nthe right way. Wanna find out how? Enlist yourselves for a
\nseminar in Jember, East Java, this March on the healthy way to
\nsmoke.<\/p>\n
The initiative for the seminar comes from non other than East
\nJava Governor Basofi Soedirman, often a controversial figure
\nbecause of his wild ideas.<\/p>\n
According to an Antara report from Surabaya, Basofi told a
\nmeeting with ulemas and local Jember leaders that the seminar is
\npart of his administration campaign to protect small farmers in
\nJember, whose main crop is...tobacco.<\/p>\n
Jember produces high quality Besuki Na Oogst tobacco which is
\nexported mainly to Europe.<\/p>\n
In the face of the vigorous anti-smoking campaign, East Java
\nshould be realistic when it comes to the issue of smoking, he
\nsaid. Other countries, or regions, can speak out against smoking
\nbecause they simply import tobacco, but East Java has a region
\nwhose economy depends on tobacco growing, he said.<\/p>\n
Remember Cibaduyut near Bandung in West Java, which was once
\nfamed for its shoe industries? Basofi said he did not want Jember
\nto go the Cibaduyut way, whose main industry is on a decline
\nbecause of slack demand.<\/p>\n
\"We can't let it happen to Jember and its Besuki Na Oogst
\ntobacco\", he said.<\/p>\n
Basofi also quickly pointed out that it is not the intention
\nof the seminar to encourage people to smoke more, but it is
\nintended to teach the healthy way to smoke. (emb)<\/p>",
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