Hoarse and sufocatted

the tobacco industry is alive and killing

by João Peres & Moriti Neto

Description

Few people know that Brazil, the world's largest exporter of tobacco leaf since the 1990s, fills the world's lungs with nicotine. Robbed and Suffocated offers a unique portrait of the Rio Pardo Valley, in Rio Grande do Sul, the heart of the national tobacco industry. It is from there that the discourse - and the lobby - in defense of cigarettes emanates. The authors analyze the rhetoric that mixes the survival of small farmers with the interests of megacorporations in search of ever greater profits, and reveal how this articulation is used to halt public health and tobacco control policies. Behind the smokescreen, politicians, the media, trade unions, organizations claiming to fight smuggling and even fake internet profiles are intertwined. Deputies and senators, mayors, former ministers, members of the Supreme Court and former IRS secretaries: a vast and powerful network of favors emerges in the disguised defense of an economic sector that kills half of its own clientele.

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Author Biography

João Peres is the author of Corumbiara, caso burado (Elefante, 2015), a reportage book that was among the finalists for the Jabuti Prize in 2016 and was awarded second place in the Human Rights Journalism Prize in 2015. He was an editor and reporter for Rede Brasil Atual between April 2009 and November 2014, after having worked in the newsrooms of radio stations Jovem Pan AM and BandNews FM. He is the translator of the book Uberization: the new wave of precarious work, by Tom Slee (Elefante, 2017). In recent years he has dedicated himself to investigating the private sector. He is one of the founders of the website O joio e o trigo, which specializes in food politics. Moriti Neto is a journalist who has worked for the website Rede Brasil Atual, the magazines Fórum and Caros Amigos, and the blog Nota de Rodapé. He has also collaborated with newspapers and websites in the interior of São Paulo. He won first and second place in the Human Rights Journalism Awards in 2014 and 2015, and the Anamatra Human Rights Award in 2016, for reports produced for Agência Pública. As a teacher, he coordinated the newspaper Matéria-Prima, a journalism course at Unifaat, which in 2013 received four mentions in the Yara Communication Award. He is one of the founders of the website O joio e o trigo, which specializes in food policy.

Editora Elefante

Editora Elefante

Editora Elefante was founded in May 2011 and publishes titles mainly in the areas of sociology, anthropology, feminism, Latin American studies, anti-racism, and political essays.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Elefante
  • Orginal LanguagePortuguese
  • ISBN/Identifier 9788593115165
  • Publication Country or regionBrazil
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 50 BRL
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleRoucos e sufocados
  • Original Language AuthorsJoão Peres & Moriti Neto
  • Edition1.0
  • Dimensions13,5x21 cm
  • IllustrationNo

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