A GLOBAL ADDICTION: Around the world, more than 1.2 billion people are addicted to cigarettes--about half of whom will die as a consequence of the habit. The World Health Organization puts the annual global cost, including health care and lost productivity, at nearly US$2 trillion. Children are not only targeted to fill the ever-depleting ranks of consumers but are forced into hard labour to produce the crop. In some countries, the demand for land to produce tobacco is the biggest single cause of deforestation.: Rocco Rorandelli has spent more than a decade travelling the world documenting and photographing the impacts of the tobacco industry

Globally, an estimated 50 million 13-15-year-olds smoke cigarettes or use smokeless tobacco products. According to the Tobacco Atlos produced by the University of Illinois, Chicago, in many developing countries, tobacco [...]