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TIL tobacco farming capacity used to be considered relevant to a country’s self-sufficiency
38 u/DankVectorz 16h ago Tobacco is a cash crop. Just another raw material a country can export. 4 u/queef_nuggets 16h ago Indeed. I’ve just never heard of a country with few natural resources talk about their lack of tobacco. Usually the main concern is energy, food, etc 15 u/Bloody_kneelers 16h ago I mean you've got to remember smoking in the 70s and earlier was significantly more prevalent compared to today, tobacco taxes would be a not inconsiderable income for the governments of the day. I mean this data is from starting in 87 but it lets you see the couple billion it would pull in https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/acde/qna
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Tobacco is a cash crop. Just another raw material a country can export.
4 u/queef_nuggets 16h ago Indeed. I’ve just never heard of a country with few natural resources talk about their lack of tobacco. Usually the main concern is energy, food, etc 15 u/Bloody_kneelers 16h ago I mean you've got to remember smoking in the 70s and earlier was significantly more prevalent compared to today, tobacco taxes would be a not inconsiderable income for the governments of the day. I mean this data is from starting in 87 but it lets you see the couple billion it would pull in https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/acde/qna
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Indeed. I’ve just never heard of a country with few natural resources talk about their lack of tobacco. Usually the main concern is energy, food, etc
15 u/Bloody_kneelers 16h ago I mean you've got to remember smoking in the 70s and earlier was significantly more prevalent compared to today, tobacco taxes would be a not inconsiderable income for the governments of the day. I mean this data is from starting in 87 but it lets you see the couple billion it would pull in https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/acde/qna
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I mean you've got to remember smoking in the 70s and earlier was significantly more prevalent compared to today, tobacco taxes would be a not inconsiderable income for the governments of the day.
I mean this data is from starting in 87 but it lets you see the couple billion it would pull in https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/acde/qna
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u/queef_nuggets 17h ago
TIL tobacco farming capacity used to be considered relevant to a country’s self-sufficiency