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Imperial noted the current development of a Sustainable Tobacco Program, which will be a robust, comprehensive and focused global program to assess suppliers in four areas: Crop, Environment, People and Facility. Imperial stated that it believes this enhanced and agreed global program will help to alleviate the assessment burden on suppliers and better unify standards.[136] Japan Tobacco Group Japan Tobacco Group describes itself as a leading international tobacco company with operations in over 70 countries and produces brands including Winston and Camel.[137] Japan Tobacco International (JTI), responsible for the groups international operations, has an Agricultural Labor Practices policy (ALP) that follows the ILO conventions regarding the minimum age for children to work, however the policy is not currently being implemented in the US.[138] In the US, JTI requires its growers to comply with standards known as the US Tobacco Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Program, which includes agricultural labor practices, but only as defined by US law.[139] Regarding child labor, the US Tobacco GAP Program requires growers to: Follow all relevant contractual and legal requirements concerning the regulations on child labor, and advises growers to review federal and state laws governing the employment of children under 18 in agriculture

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As concluded in NCI Monograph 19: The studies of tobacco advertising bans in various countries show that comprehensive bans reduce tobacco consumption

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Differences across groups: The risks were not the same for everyone