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Between 1 October and 31 December 2025, authorities seized more than 467 tonnes of illicit cigarettes and loose-leaf tobacco, alongside tens of thousands of vapes, in what the ABF says reflects intensified enforcement and stronger domestic and offshore collaboration

The tobacco industry has a strong hand of control throughout the tobacco cycle from seed to sale, but the devastation it causes is ultimately borne by governments, tobacco workers, users and their families, creating a seemingly endless cycle of poverty, destruction and death. South Hill, Virginia, USA (pictured above) After the English colonised Jamestown in 1607, John Rolfe began planting seeds of a popular Spanish variety of tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum , and soon became the first North American farmer to cultivate and export tobacco breaking the previous Spanish monopoly

Similarly, there is no question that Americans have been packing on the pounds in recent decades: in the early 1960s, 13 percent of US adults were obese

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