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Polish tobacco producers protest as EU weighs up cutting funding to farms

Several hundred Polish tobacco growers travelled to Warsaw on 3 November to protest WHO recommendations to cut EU subsidies. © Adrien Sarlat / RFI

Warsaw – Ahead of a meeting later this month where the EU will decide whether to adopt World Health Organization recommendations to cut funding to European tobacco farms, Polish producers are making their voices heard.

Poland is the European Union's third largest producer of tobacco, behind Italy and Spain, according to the EU's most recent available figures.

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