HARARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For five years, Mickel Giwa has grown tobacco on part of his six-hectare plot in Goromonzi, 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Harare. Curing the leaves with ...

Around this time of year, first responders have been used to receiving an influx of calls for tobacco barn fires. As the tobacco harvest has gotten into full swing, people may see smoke coming out of ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s tobacco curing season in the South, and the sheriff’s office in Montgomery County is making sure the region’s newest neighbors know. Tobacco barns across the ...

WESTFIELD, N.C. – Inside one of his grandfather’s wooden tobacco barns, Stokes County farmer Thomas Gallant spent a chilly afternoon last fall hanging his tobacco harvest for curing. Muscled and tan ...

* Japan Tobacco Inc (Other OTC: JAPAF - news) calls WHO report "misleading" (Adds reaction by Japan Tobacco Inc, new paras 12-13) GENEVA, May 30 (Reuters) - Tobacco growing causes "massive harm" to ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Tobacco growing is causing "massive harm" to the environment through the extensive use of chemicals, energy and water, and pollution from manufacturing and distribution, the World ...