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"Mr President, deriving its inspiration from the Greens and from the health fanatics, a majority has voted not only against the growing of tobacco but also – it is not clear why – against the cultivation of olive groves. All this is prompted by the simple logic according to which tobacco causes lung cancer, so all that needs to be done to do away with lung cancer is to stop growing the stuff. It is an unfortunate fact that 75% of the tobacco smoked in Europe, amounting to 540 000 tonnes, is imported, in particular from Brazil, and so banning our 350 000 tonnes of European tobacco, 25 000 tonnes of which come from France, will have no effect on cancer whatever. On the contrary, it will put a question mark over 50 000 French jobs, at Sarlat, Tonneins, Lille and elsewhere. In Europe, a total of 500 000 jobs are at risk, many of them being done by women – who, in any case have fewer resources and are hence less able to fight against cancer.
What is the reasoning behind this hastily cobbled-together policy? It is that the European Commission has no love for tobacco-growers, winegrowers, olive farmers and the people who work the land. Brussels is all in favour of preferential treatment for foreign agriculture, and so it even prefers lung cancer to be imported."@en1
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