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WHO advises Asian countries to stop subsidising tobacco farms and grow rice and vegetables instead. Asian countries devote more than a million hectares to tobacco cultivation.
Eco-Business looks back at the handful of times the gloomy world of sustainability was amusing, sort of, in 2022.
Chronic obstructive lung disease is mainly due to environmental causes, but in poor Asian countries, smoking and indoor pollution from cooking are the leading causes.
A survey of advertising and PR executives in Australia finds discomfort among young people asked to create campaigns for big polluters. But how pervasive are these views elsewhere in a region still heavily dependent on fossil fuels?
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