TAINTED TOBACCO LEAVES GENERATE CHINA PUSH TO RESTORE POLLUTED SOIL
November 1st, 2010
BY WANG FANGQING, ALAN OSBORN
Tainted tobacco leaves generate China push to restore polluted soil
A new report has warned that Chinese tobacco plants are sucking up heavy metals from contaminated soils. The Chinese tobacco industry is challenging the findings, and analysts predict sales will not be weakened. Elsewhere in the word, pests and disease are a bigger problem.
While the health lobby is pretty much convinced that tobacco is unhealthy period, activists will have doubtless been unnerved by the October study warning that Chinese tobacco plants have ...
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