ILO TOBACCO CONFERENCE
March 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNTOBACCO companies, trade unions and governments have agreed that employment in the tobacco sector "needs to be reviewed in terms of recent economic and social developments." The three sides, meeting under the auspices of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva last month (February), accepted that the sector's jobs in industrialised countries and some developing countries "have either been stagnating or declining, although tobacco production, especially cigarettes, has been increasing due to higher demand worldwide supported by ...
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