Considerable losses In Europe, cigarette smuggling and other forms of illicit trade in tobacco products are estimated to cause a 10 billion loss to the EU and national budgets every year, says the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
Tobacco is labor-intensive, requiring over a full year of labor to gather the tiny seeds, grow them early in the year in cold frames, transplanting to the outdoor fields when the soil is warm, weeding throughout the summer, "topping" most plants (to remove the flowers and force more of the plant's energy into the leaves), then harvesting the leaves individually for several weeks as they ripen in late Summer-early Fall
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World Development Indicators: Participation in education, Egypt the World Bank Website: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)