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• -. [.<. '. : ,." " .:}: I "". .--2 :'"ii'..'i' ";~:"" '-2 3e.r..z!l~ ~s ;'., ....,.. e,.De..se- r--c ' iC: llJ ::~ .T.! Analysis "2 }. =~ - -e ~ invited ~_c... devc!cgiDq coun'_ries "'.r_ by the Swedish international Develop- B'" introducin; the e_notiona! and ",'~ ~cal Dowers of Third World ccunuries, the anti-smoking forces have given ~= f'_'ght about the " "- _._ ~mon.-..~ is~-'-'e a new dLT.ension. !~ the social acceptability "lever" is d esi.cned to work" . it. ~--h~" Scclety of~men, the Third ;¢cr!d z~ree.?.ent a~._~, a~ exactly the S~LT.e effect in the society of stahes. -.-- a state it shall be intern-~-ionally ~; ~1~,~ai~v unacceptable tc further and prcr.cte the growing and selling cf leaf tobacco, t~.e nahufacturing and distributing ef manu- .-_ u__ ~o__c.o. The tools tc achieve that are arg,~mentaticns a!eng the confrontations of black man-wHite man, the first. o, hai.n9 exploited ~n health and wealr/~, bv the second- ,he =arch through the institutions l-as already begun. ,,.~-9 has always _~een on ~.- cuber i-" For" an organisation "-" S ~e. which must lock first for fields of action-,;hich justify its I. I io ! . own existence (and its ~.T~p!e budg~_~-) the smoking issue is an U.nc:a~ has only recently c -- • "~" c:..'.m_~.ed iEself to the other i-= ~rcbahly because they sense the stronger battalions ~h=-r_=. Because'they can have no rational arg'.-~.en~ against ~n economic branch bein~ responsible ~o_ a substantial part of World Trade and one of the most important cash crcTs -of developing countries, FA0 - althc'agh our natural ally - is ~cwin~ signs of s'~itching sides. UN itself has nature!Iv not been invo!ve~ yet. "But if all sub- ED orcanizations agree that they have s~o~.t~-d ma~i<ind's foe CD Nu=bur One, we might by one p~_-oc~ss or the other even become .. t~4 object of U N attention (like druq ~rzffic, slavery etc.). O This even more so because we would be a comfortable zcape- L~ coat cn which e,~_~ody, red and free, black and %'hire, rich and .. ~_ -':_d easily acr=e. .. CL' ,,,.,

.C; • ' • *-*.i ~.: *°- + @ " .~ :.. ~ o° r q.+.;\ :" ::tr" A r,c ..,.-+ i ; :.-: ! ',+,i c- r",+ .... 3 As..-- ceneral, obse=va~-icn, one can state that all ~,,,i.d- World issues cenarallv° _ to an cve~whe.1_+~ing extenP, are decided by. e:cticns r.~ther than =- ~ ..c~s. See inZ the s.T.oking +ssue and t_he black-whlte ccnfronuation, both -are highly e.T.otiona!, it bec:.T.es easy to conceive that they qualify easily as de- t+_-m..--+ng ~-ac~o~+ in +~ha d eci.sion of whether the +~<~+ World .. will stand on t/he side of the anti-tobacco forces or on the side c_= ~hcse who a pzroach +.he prcble.~., objecti%+'ely. C.-.ce '.:'-.~. a S ~ . S' ~- rand has been t~'<en, it "'~Ii become virtuailv . s .... ~o _averse ,_t by rational ar~'--~..ants. the deve!cpr..ent tcwards a Thi-; World-; ~.!i!. Cbj active i~i';e .-..'I---~ try;. to stop_ I • ~ cc..-:n..i~--..ent against tobacco. ;j I "- +! .-_u" try to +.+ .... . +I ~'e , st ~.=~ =I~ or at least a substantial Dart II • • t. ~ t 9-" " ~ Wcrid countries co~:itted to our ~ause. _+-/~-- "7 We mus~. ~z..2 to inf!u~nce official FAO and Unctad policy to-~.-.~'=.~ a pro. tchac=o zt~_nd. .-_+. F;e , 'St try _. r_u _ to mitic='e the Lm:act of :;--'.0b' pushing the.T~ II into = =ore objective and neutral position IV. Action record=sanded [*... It is recc.-.r..end~_d t.hat ICOSI work cut a+n action plan and • a~pcint personnel res~cns++_b!e for its execution. It is zu=ges+--ad that the action plan should include the following cons ideraticns : -+ ~- a fact that tobaczo is a ~; World cash crop which can-. be replaced by any o~her co.T.~.odity. On the contrary, manl~ or+he.~ countries try to replac# their crops by tobacco. Target ccuntri.[ ~.':cu!d he made a'+,are of this.=a~~-. and of the long te~+m threah • "nti-tcbacco r...easur~s pose fcr £heir economy. we~..~.__~,,~ approach the Grc~:ar C~u- ,-~s thrcuch, our tobacco :-" : buying connections and not ~hrouch our cigarette manufacturi:.-: interests in the~,-_'±-_'=~._e~.t.. " +" court:ties. This ..-"_.'---+- the advantace ".- ~'~'~.._ azDr~ach__ ~s"- mac~" by.. the agric~',-~_~_~ forces of the respec=" : a~;, ~v ~ec+D!e ".:ho .h~, _ + -m_e!ves be!cnc =o the Third World. _.-=" .-.'_ c~ O~

° °. ..o p 1"~ ~ L "~..'I%I~'P~ .... -" 4 by an industry already under a~.tach, by multinational onto_--.: . who only care for~,.h.~i.-~,- excessive profits. -.,n ~:e Gro'-'er Countries the problem should be ,.na~.e conscious on 6~verr_-..ent la:~el as to ~s~---blish a Goverru-,ent policy. Tho_n it" is possibl~ -~ encourage the Gro'.~er Countries t'o form" alliances under the siien~ r,_,sponsibility, of t~e one o~ them • .'hich is effected the ~.ost, e.~. ... / Brazil - Southern and Central ;=merica Malawi - A/rica _'ndcnesi~- South-East" .Asia. i 0 0 o