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There is a long and sad history of the exploitation of
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developing countries by the tobacco industry.
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Some of it are the big multi-national tobacco players
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that are headquartered outside these countries,
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but in some cases like China,
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it's state-owned tobacco businesses that are driving this.
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The numbers in these countries are very high,
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and this idea of multi-national companies using the developing world
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as an emerging market for things that may really hurt people,
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is a topic that we'll layer onto food
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as we get further into the class.
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The parallels with tobacco aren't perfect by any means,