🇵🇸 Palestine: Unregulated tobacco industry on the rise | Al Jazeera English

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Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2018 · News & Politics

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Palestinian farmers have grown tobacco for generations, but as jobs have dried up more and more people have turned to working in the unregulated industry.

The Palestinian Authority says it is missing out on millions of dollars of tax revenue every month.

Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports from Yabad in the occupied West Bank.

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