The yoke of indirectness in the new economic package
But so many farmers sold their land (via brokers/agents) to tobacco firms - especially BAT - and their islands now have to import food. Worse, ex-farmers soon spend the money they got for their land, hence child malnutrition - even starvation (pronounced BUSUNG LAPAR) - is on the rise. So fuck the tobacco firms - or at least use part of cigarette taxes to provide assistance to poor farmers and food supplies to the needy in tobacco-growing districts. Dreaming of course. But no longer coughing up brown-green-red sputum every hour.
Oh God , not this old cherry again . BAT grow no tobacco in Indonesia - they don't actually buy that much - the kawi tobacco's produced in Indonesia have no place in "straight" virginia cigarettes - BAT are still very "english" in their tobacco products , whilst PMI toast burley tobacco which is grown in Indo , BAT's key brands do not contain it -
Universal Leaf buy plenty of tobacco from Indo , but it stays exported , and the vast majority of the bright tobacco used in Indo comes from Bangladesh and India .
None of the tobacco used in Marlboro is even processed in Indo , it comes from malaysia - though this is set to change shortly as PT HMS are starting to process from PMI blends .
Very few leaf dealers are in the least bit interested in owning the land where tobacco is grown - normally they limit their involvement to supply seed ( to prevent dilution of the crop and nornicotine problems) and fertilizer - there is actually no benefit in owning land used for tobacco production , it is just too volatile in demand .
Growing the stuff isn't the problem - but smoking it clearly is .
Nobody cares about graphic warnings - do you stop getting hammered every friday night because you see a picture of a cirrhotic liver ?
The UK "makes" GBP 17,000,000 a day on direct tobacco taxation - where do you suppose that this money goes ? healthcare ?
The argument is pretty empty really - everyone knows that tobacco products are bad for you ( except perhaps Niacin, Vitamin B3 ) - how about alcohol though , just how many lives does alcohol ruin ? and lates face it , the symptoms are the same , just more socially acceptable , but a good deal more insipid . The UK is facing a very real future problem with alcohol dependency and damage to health ( as is the expat population of Jakarta) - but there are no real efforts being made to curb excess drinking because alcohol is the modern alternative to tobacco , and elixir and solution for all the stresses of modern life .
Oh God , not this old cherry again . BAT grow no tobacco in Indonesia - they don't actually buy that much - the kawi tobacco's produced in Indonesia have no place in "straight" virginia cigarettes - BAT are still very "english" in their tobacco products , whilst PMI toast burley tobacco which is grown in Indo , BAT's key brands do not contain it -
Universal Leaf buy plenty of tobacco from Indo , but it stays exported , and the vast majority of the bright tobacco used in Indo comes from Bangladesh and India .
None of the tobacco used in Marlboro is even processed in Indo , it comes from malaysia - though this is set to change shortly as PT HMS are starting to process from PMI blends .
Very few leaf dealers are in the least bit interested in owning the land where tobacco is grown - normally they limit their involvement to supply seed ( to prevent dilution of the crop and nornicotine problems) and fertilizer - there is actually no benefit in owning land used for tobacco production , it is just too volatile in demand .
Growing the stuff isn't the problem - but smoking it clearly is .
Nobody cares about graphic warnings - do you stop getting hammered every friday night because you see a picture of a cirrhotic liver ?
The UK "makes" GBP 17,000,000 a day on direct tobacco taxation - where do you suppose that this money goes ? healthcare ?
The argument is pretty empty really - everyone knows that tobacco products are bad for you ( except perhaps Niacin, Vitamin B3 ) - how about alcohol though , just how many lives does alcohol ruin ? and lates face it , the symptoms are the same , just more socially acceptable , but a good deal more insipid . The UK is facing a very real future problem with alcohol dependency and damage to health ( as is the expat population of Jakarta) - but there are no real efforts being made to curb excess drinking because alcohol is the modern alternative to tobacco , and elixir and solution for all the stresses of modern life .