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• Southerners say they have no choice but to make living cultivating tobacco 

SOUTH LEBANON: "We are not exporters of diseases. If we had alternative crops we would get rid of tobacco cultivation," cultivator Hassan Tirani told The Daily Star on Thursday, while he was selling his annual tobacco harvest to the Tobacco Regie in Nabatieh. "We are accused of selling products that have negative effects on human bodies," he said. "We do not intend to harm people at all. Provide us with alternatives and we will stop practicing tobacco cultivation."

Tirani said tobacco cultivation "is tiring but not rewarding."

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