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Article: Dumping health risks on developing nations.
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- April 1, 1993
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"While smoking is declining and exercise and healthy nutrition habits are improving in the developing world, cigarette manufacturers, to name one group, are licking their corporate chops as they successfully replace shrinking domestic markets with increased sales in Third World countries," asserts John W. Farquhar, professor of medicine and director of the Stanford University Center for Research in Disease Prevention. "It's clear that wellness is becoming a global problem. Industrialized countries have a social obligation to ensure that they are not preying on the rest of the world. It's important that countries such as the United States and Canada not only share the ...