Vapor Screen: Tobacco Farming in Brazil

Tobacco farmers in Brazil are facing a precarious future, and many have no idea. The tobacco industry claims it will abandon regular cigarettes in favor of nicotine-only products, but it keeps growers in the dark about how the switch could threaten their livelihoods by drastically reducing the demand for raw tobacco.

New investigations and fact sheets examine the impact a full switch would have, how efforts to diversify crops have stalled and more.